[Rails] question about Rails with non-relational databases

Rosemary Michelle Simpson
Sat, 22 Apr 2006 05:03:52 -0000

I''m very uncomfortable with Rails right now because it seems to be
totally
wedded to relational databases.  I want to develop my data and data
structures in Tinderbox - a hypertext data development system from
Eastgate systems (http://www.eastgate.com/Tinderbox/), export the data
and datastructures, massage to some format, and then use with a dynamic
frontend that builds a web page based on the results of a query over that
dataset.

I''m designing in terms of multiple POV and LOD representations of the
semantic
net, probably directed node-link graphs with the links as clickable objects,
dynamically generated for the web. Right now I seem to be moving back towards a
Java applet/servlet notion, but I''m not very happy with that.  For one
thing, I
need to get something up in 2-3 months - part of the the appeal of Ruby on
Rails was its reputation for enabling rapid dynamic website development.

Development in Tinderbox is a non-negotiable requirement.  a relational
database just won''t do it.  I''m starting from a semantic net
built from an
index and want to dynamically generate view-dependent semantic nets from that
data, semantic nets that can be general directed graphs.

Suggestions?

Rosemary Michelle Simpson