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I aplaude all the work that''s been done on RoR, but I''m a bit confused as to why ActiveRecord has the capability to easily create tables, but does not provide a mechanism to do this automatically. I found some information about ActiveSchema, but it''s listed as being in the planning stage. One key point to using Ruby is the ability to prototype rapidly, and not having to fuss with database details would greatly enhance the prototyping stage of development. Am I missing something? Is RoR targeted more towards legacy datab...