-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 James Adam wrote: > On 7/17/06, zdennis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > That said, I think providing an 'import' method as a plugin would >> > certainly be useful to some people (especially those too lazy to >> > connect to a database by hand). >> >> I like to automate tasks, if that makes me lazy, then I am lazy. > > > Me too - I must confess to having an AR model in one of my projects > for the explicit purpose of connecting to a DB, and nothing else. > Necessity is the mother of innovation; Lazyness is the mother of > pragmatism. I certainly have no issue taking Models out to dinner, > plying them with rich foods and cheap wines, and then swiping their > underlying DB connection using instance_eval before they know what's > happened to them. Don't hate the player baby, hate the game! Ahem.
I don't have a PhD, don't worry. ;) >> > Another thing to do might be reworking >> > it to use prepared statements, for an even bigger speed increase. >> >> I like the idea of keeping logic outside of the DB itself. > > > Perhaps we're talking at cross purposes, but I don't think using a > prepared statement is pushing logic into the DB; rather it's taking > advantage of cache features so the DB can be a bit smarter (or in some > cases a LOT smarter) about how it handles your request. At the > ActiveRecord API level, whether you're using a prepared statement or > not should be transparent; your import(array) method needn't change > the argument it accepts or the result it returns. It might be worth > investigating in this context, since you essentially on a quest for > speed and efficiency. I'll look into this more, thanks for clarifying. > Finally, implementing this as a plugin first will give people > (including the core team I'd imagine) the opportunity to evaluate this > addition in 'production' environments, which is an excellent way to > highlight its value. Don't think of doing as a plugin as a > 'second-best' solution... Plugin is the way I started, and plugin is the way I will continue to go for the time being. Before I got to far with bringing implementations I wanted to pose this question and have this very discussion to determine where my effort should be applied (patches to AR trunk or at a plugin). Thanks for the discussion and your viewpoints. It is very appreciated as I move towards a faster AR. ;) Zach -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFEvAh/Myx0fW1d8G0RAoakAJ4hSElM8Y0nFQ7JDlqztUIkY6BohQCeM5yr NYaK040952E7YqM+Ovqt7Tc= =uQ/0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Rails-core mailing list Rails-core@lists.rubyonrails.org http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails-core
