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Hi everyone, I''m a signal processing / math analysis programmer just getting interested in programming for the web. RoR seems to be the system to learn. I have read through the O''Reilly cookbook and pragmatic Depot applications, and am impressed by how much can be accomplished so quickly. I''m also impressed with the level of support that this mailing list seems to

I know ActiveRecord doesn''t support composite primary keys, but I need to use one, and I need it ASAP. I don''t need any composite foreign keys, luckily; what I have is a table that stores old versions of rows in another table, so the composite key is an id + date stamp. Would someone tell me a hack I can use to support this? -- View this message in context:

Adding a column to a table just places the column at the end, but I like to keep related columns together. Is there a way to specify where the column is added in a table with migrations? For example, in MySQL you can do: ALTER TABLE my_table ADD COLUMN new_column INT AFTER other_column I was hoping migrations would support something like this: add_column :my_table, :new_column, :integer,

Hi all, I try to use RODBC on my mac machine. I google a lot but could not find a very comprehensive tutorial. Finally, I install iODBC, but there's no driver in iODBC. And I found some commercial ODBC driver. Actaully I just want to learn it ,so free driver will be suitable for me. Does anyone how to use RODBC on mac environment ? And is there any comprehensive tutorial on it ? Thanks --

Hi there! How can i use 2 database connections in my rails application ( if it''s possible of course ): one for reading from DB and one for writing to DB? Thanks, Dmitry -- 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

I have a table with some data structured something like this: book ---- title (varchar) pages (int) completed_on (date) While I can find the shortest book completed in each year with something like this: select min( pages ), year from book group by year I would also like to get the title of the shortest book in each year. Is there any way to do this by modifying the previous query to pull

Hi Railsers, How do you design your applications? Do you start coding HTML? Start with the controllers/models? Start in a program like photoshop/gimp/illustrator/inkscape? I start in inkscape, it''s a SVG editor. I sketch all the views of my application, and then I create the views that belong to one controller in RHTML. After that, I do the models/controller, and move on to the

I have an application where speed is probably the #1 priority here. I am using MySQL 5.0.22. Would SQL be considerably faster than MySQL? I know this has been discussed before, but the search on the forums is not working. Thanks for your help. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Hi, Is anyone using Oracle with RoR successfully? Is everything running smoothly? What are the main issues? any response is appreciated thanks, Chris -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Hello folks, I use to think that a relational databases without foreign keys constraints enforced strictly by the RDBMS were no good, piece of crap, data junk. However, I''ve also learned the hard way that FKs constraints imposes serious difficulties when moving data around, specially between different DBs, or for loading test data or for upgrading DBs schemas, or for porting DBs

I sure hope so: http://duckdown.blogspot.com/2006/03/additional-thoughts-on-why-ruby-isnt.html Seems like it''s getting genuine rebuttals, though. It''s actually kind of amusing.