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...ntranet at a back whose internal systems are Oracle on linux. For now all my data will be on a dedicated box but down the road I may need to make calls into other databases hosted on other machines, running sybase or Oracle to retrieve data. I view this as an opportunity to push rails into a legacy envirnmoent and show the staff there what it can do. If I need to pull data in from outside tables on other machines, can I define them in model, or skip the abstraction and just parse raw SQL calls. Can RoR integrate many external systems without expecting write access ? [my box: oracle 10gi + apache2 + fas...