On Mar 2, 6:46 pm, RobR <[email protected]> wrote:
> I'm interested in using ActiveRecord (AR) to build an API to a
> glorified file catalogue with ~35 million and counting entries. It's
> really an MD5sum catalogue with extra information granules about each
> file to support web services like interaction. Firstly, I'm not a
> computer scientist; just a hacking physicist with a little OOP
> experience. In addition to AR for ORM, I'm planning to use MySQL
> partition tables of type InnoDB.
>
> In a private email, David H. said this combination looks compatible:
> Ruby 1.8.6 or 1.8.7, AR and AS 2.2.2, MySQL 2.7 and MySQL Server
> 5.1.x. I'm trying not to bother David directly, for this related
> question.
>
> The problem is that our admins will not install Ruby 1.8.6 or AR/AS
> 2.2.2, instead I'm allowed to have these versions "managed" by the
> RedHat package manager: Ruby 1.8.5, AR/AS 2.1.1.
>
> I plan to take advantage of simple implementations of these built in
> technologies: transactions, callback macros, validation, association,
> aggregation, etc
>
All of these have been in Rails for ages, rails 2.2 was only out in
december and clearly people were coping before then :-)
Fred
> Are there any obvious problems with my setup?
>
> Thanks!
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