Re: Complete Newbie needs help!

John T.
Fri, 11 Sep 2009 13:42:19 -0000

Marnen Laibow-Koser wrote:

> I do not think I would advise using SQLite -- it''s kind of
underpowered
> for Rails, as I understand.  I would, however, suggest using PostgreSQL
> instead of mySQL.

I''m not suggesting use SQLite for production, but for development.
SQLite is just fine, and is plenty powerful. Not to mention for someone
just getting into Rails, one less thing to deal with - setting up a
whole database server like MySql and Postgres. SQLite is built into OS
X, and as I''ve reminded myself, the gem is already installed in OS X.
(Many services and applications use SQLite as their backend database -
Safari, Firefox to name two)
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