Relax, Anton. I simply wrote that b/c Sean said others on the list might know the SQL method.
On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 10:38 AM, Anton Aylward <[email protected]> wrote: > banane said the following on 02/09/2010 12:34 PM: > >> In pure SQL it would be: >> >> [snip] > > BTDT. Deperately want to avoid going back! > >> I'm not well versed enough in Rails to know how to do this, ha! Isn't >> there a "sql" option in ActiveRecord where you can just push in db-sql >> and not worry about Rails doing the joins? > > The whole point was to use the rails _console_ and use the > object-relational mapping. If I wanted a SQL solution I wouldn't have > asked in a Ruby/Rails/Radiant forum :-) > > I like the idea of constructs such as > > Page.find(:all. :conditions .....).name > as an extrapolation of > Page.name > > This is "Object" stuff, which is a lot more natural to an natural > language user than the half-RPN nature of SQL. > > SQL is really the assembly code of database programming. > The Rails object relational mapping is the HLL. > > If you love programming in assembly code I'm not going to stop you. > But most of the programmers I know use at least C or C++, if not Perl or > PHP or Python, and Ruby is one of the more H of the HLLs. > _______________________________________________ > Radiant mailing list > Post: [email protected] > Search: http://radiantcms.org/mailing-list/search/ > List Site: http://lists.radiantcms.org/mailman/listinfo/radiant > Radiant: http://radiantcms.org > Extensions: http://ext.radiantcms.org > _______________________________________________ Radiant mailing list Post: [email protected] Search: http://radiantcms.org/mailing-list/search/ List Site: http://lists.radiantcms.org/mailman/listinfo/radiant Radiant: http://radiantcms.org Extensions: http://ext.radiantcms.org
