most of my sites so far revolve around user customizable meta-cms things, which incorporate user-submitted content, auto-aggregated things, and a diverse set of ''nodes'' with varying components and attributes. using polymorphic and :through along with som custom model code i was able to do what i want (but Josh Susser''s ThroughExtender thing just mentioned on his blog sounds like it would have saved me some time and effort if it already existed..) anyways, i really think what im doing using SQL is a big hack. if looking at it as merely a tool to facilitate object persistence, i''m almost willing to look over all the workarounds, but i''d like the relationship between storage and current instances be a bit more symbiotic. surely the past 35 years of smalltalk development has some solutions that dont include SQL. has anyone used something like Kowari as a backend for a Rails site? any white-papers or blog posts about this? -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.