Rails - Apr 2006 - ActiveSchema?

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 
databases maybe?


Thanks much!
Mike

Mike Austin wrote:
> 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 databases maybe?
Au contraire...  Check out Migrations.  They may not be quite as 
fully-automated as you''re thinking, but they do take a lot of the SQL 
drudgery out of schema definition.

-- 
Alex