Rails - Apr 2006 - Rails on Oracle tutorial... from Oracle!

I''ve not seen this posted anywhere else on the list..

http://www.oracle.com/technology/pub/articles/haefel-oracle-ruby.html?rssid=rss_otn_news

Abstract:

"

You may have already heard about Ruby on Rails, the new application
framework that seems to be taking the Web development community, in
particular J2EE and PHP programmers, by storm.

Rails is a capable Web application platform and has, in less than two years,
gained significant traction among J2EE and PHP programmers. The attraction
of both J2EE and PHP programmers makes a lot of sense when you look at the
strengths of Rails. For one thing, it uses a strict model-view-controller
architecture that any self-respecting design-patterns wonk would admire?this
explains its attraction to J2EE developers. Second, it''s easy to build
basic
systems with Rails?which is attractive to PHP developers.

However, Rails has some pretty significant limitations from a database
perspective. Rails makes a lot of assumptions about your database layout and
application needs. For example, Rails assumes that all tables use a single,
non-compound, primary key. Compound primary keys are not supported! In
addition, Rails does not support two-phase commit; it''s designed to be
used
against a single database backend.

This article is not intended to be a booster piece for Rails nor is it an
expose. It''s simply an introduction to the technology. It contains both
praise and criticism. At times the criticism might appear a bit heavy handed
(especially to Rails enthusiasts), but don''t be fooled. Using any Web
application framework is going to be tricky, whether it''s J2EE,
ASP.NET, or
PHP. In the long run, you can be a lot more productive with Rails than you
can be with many other Web application development platforms, but it takes
time to learn the ropes."
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Brian Hogan wrote:
> I''ve not seen this posted anywhere else on the list..
> 
>
http://www.oracle.com/technology/pub/articles/haefel-oracle-ruby.html?rssid=rss_otn_news
> 
As a beginner in RoR, and with an application with an Oracle-database: 
Thanks for this link!

Per-Olof

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