Frank Poo wrote: > > > Hi folks: > > I'm building something akin to Google Analytics and currently I'm doing > real time database updates. However this isn't really scaling anymore, > so I need to stop doing synchronous DB operations. In the short term, > I'm trying to reduce DB writes, so I'm thinking about a global hash (say > declared in environment.rb) that is accessible from my controllers and > models that I can write to in lieu of writing to the DB. [...] > 1) Does this sound reasonable?
No! Databases should scale as much as you need them to -- that's what they are designed for. If your DB is not scaling, there is something wrong, either in your DB setup or in the way the app is using the DB. Find the problem and fix it rather than ripping out the DB. Best, -- Marnen Laibow-Koser http://www.marnen.org [email protected] -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
