Re: Agile web developement - Depot App first application

s.ross
2008-02-25T18:32:02Z

> hi there,
> just wondering - i´m building my first app as described in "agile web
> development" chapter 6 (depot) and followed the instructions to the
> letter - i saw that the database my set up creates by default is not
> mysql but sqlite - so i changed it and overwrote it with mysql and so
> far all looks fine - does anyone have a similar experience and whether
> i causes some problmes down the line? i´m just downloaded the latest
> instant rails a a week ago - so some feature maybe changed since the
> book was written - i´m reffering to the SECOND editon of the book.
>
> thanks and regards,
> JM

Things have changed significantly since ADWROR 2nd Ed. was released.
You did the right thing changing to MySQL. That will get your database
connectivity working. You will find that scaffolding and pagination
don''t work as advertised, as they have been extracted from Rails core.
I''ve written a post in my blog about the issues you will encounter
moving to Rails 2.0. See if it answers your questions:

http://calicowebdev.com/blog/show/17

(shameless plug, but it saves typing it all again)