Michael Schuerig wrote: > On Wednesday 06 October 2010, jrq wrote: >> Yes, I'm currently intending to "munge" the unorganized fields into a >> string, and deal with the parsing/processing at another stage. yes, >> it's inefficient, but it's a relatively small amount of processing, >> and hopefully it will get me to where I need to be within a short >> amount of time, which is a factor in this situation. > > Have you considered using database views? I have never been in this > situation, so take my suggestions with a grain of salt. Here's what I'd > try: > > Use database views to map the EAV (non-)schema to sane relational > schema.
Oh, goodness, I forgot to suggest that. Thanks for the reminder. rails_sql_views helps with managing those. 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.
