Rails switched from MySQL to SQLite to improve the on boarding experience. The original announcement has more details.
http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2007/12/17/rails-2-0-2-some-new-defaults-and-a-few-fixes/ — Sent from Mailbox for iPhone On Sun, Feb 9, 2014 at 10:37 AM, Rafael Mendonça França <[email protected]> wrote: > I think the default database is sqlite because it is already in almost > every operational system out there. > I also think we should not change this default because I know there are > people that prefer to use mysql as the default database. Other people > prefer to use oracle as the default database. > So, since would be hard to please everyone, I think we should keep the > original default. > Rafael Mendonça França > http://twitter.com/rafaelfranca > https://github.com/rafaelfranca > On Sun, Feb 9, 2014 at 4:31 PM, Zack Siri <[email protected]> wrote: >> Every time I generate a rails app I have to type the -d postgresql >> >> would be nice if we could just use postgres as the default database. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Ruby on Rails: Core" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-core. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ruby on Rails: Core" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-core. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Core" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-core. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
