We do have pixies! They do all the "magic" stuff. How else do you think it happens?
;) 2008/9/27 aslak hellesoy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 10:32 PM, David Chelimsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 2:29 PM, Mark Wilden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 11:26 AM, Dan North <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > >>> It seems these conversations come up time and again because Rails > >>> overloads the idea of "model". In a Rails app the model serves as both > your > >>> domain model and your persistence strategy, because of the coupling > inherent > >>> in the Active Record pattern. > >> > >> Interesting. This coupling actually brought me to one of my first > "a-ha!" > >> moment in Rails (similar to when I first learned about the ++ operator > in > >> C). Finally, I thought, I don't have to do anything to set up the > >> butt-simple relationships between models and tables that are found (as > you > >> say) in 90% of web apps (and other applications, too). Rails allows > models > >> as complicated as you want, and it also allows you to do work in the > >> database when you need to (I know "find_by_sql" is a dirty word, but it > >> allows me to perform pivots on multiple tables of millions of rows, > where AR > >> simply could not handle the SQL). But it makes the overwhelmingly common > >> case simple, and I like that. > >> So I've found that this model-db coupling to be a powerful feature of > Rails. > >> I know it's saved me a lot of work, because I've had to do it manually > so > >> many other times in the last 25 years. If it's not sufficient or > appropriate > >> in any particular case, I don't have to use it. > >> I know this view puts me on the wrong side of the contest you speak of > >> (which I frankly didn't even know I'd entered). And yes, using Rails the > way > >> I (and many others) do involves trade-offs. But the one trade-off it > doesn't > >> require is with TSTTCPW, which is the guiding philosophy in everything I > do. > >> I guess this makes me an AR pixie. :) > > > > I *think* Dan means underlying magic code when he uses the word pixie. > > > > Dan always says pixies for stuff he doesn't understand. They don't > have pixies in England I think. > > Aslak > > >> ///ark > >> _______________________________________________ > >> rspec-users mailing list > >> rspec-users@rubyforge.org > >> http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users > >> > > _______________________________________________ > > rspec-users mailing list > > rspec-users@rubyforge.org > > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users > > > _______________________________________________ > rspec-users mailing list > rspec-users@rubyforge.org > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users >
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