TImbeTImbe wrote in post #973079: > I have a the great task of migrating the backend of a large multi > client application to Rails! > > I'm pumped for the opportunity to drop PHP, but a LOT of table schemas > have a very "non-rails" setup. The main hangup is any image urls for > the site live in a large monolithic table with a column to designate > the other tables name and it's primary key that has an image. > > Unfortunately I can't change the schema.
Then either decline the project or create a REST service that your Rails app can read with ActiveResource. (I'd probably decline the project -- unchangeable schemes and multi-client DBs without an abstraction layer are recipes for disaster.) > How can I map paperclip or > carrierwave to write the relative paths to rows like "small", "med", > "lrg", "original" in this images table? Best, -- Marnen Laibow-Koser http://www.marnen.org [email protected] Sent from my iPhone -- 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.
