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...by the ability to truly do everything in Ruby, thanks to innovations like RJS, MAB, Migrations... this lack of integration was the main reason i had previously only used the web mainly for some screen-scraping regex-hacks for my homepage and market-tracking needs. how i achieved a basic "DabbleDB" in stock edge-rails was a table for each of the basic types (sting, integer, etc) and a polymorphic join table linking these components together into meta-records. say, 2 string types joined together as a ''blogpost''. it works fine for their basic needs of customizable fo...

I love rails but I want more. :-) I''d like a generator that generates a complete application. It would read an information model, and from it generate the MVC''s with a validation-constrained model, errors and exceptions, page navigation and rich view layout... The information model would be represented by ruby "meta" classes, and could be generated as an

Ok, so this is kinda out of the blue... but I''ve been looking at Google Base and thinking that it''s got some really good ideas in it. Especially the way you can create your own "type" of item with its own custom attributes, like date range, location, number, text, etc. Kind of like defining a database with a GUI, but not exactly. It seems really interesting to me, from

Hello all, I am a rails nuby and I am evaluating using Rails for a new web application. The application will have a large number of tables (>70) that will basically mimic a large collection of paper forms that user would otherwise have to fill out. From what I have read on rails thus far it seems I would have to create a lot of models and form templates. Is this common and if so does

I''m new to RoR and have used PHP. I want to develop a personal organizer that allows me to add lists (tables) and search them. The ActiveRecord concept seems to allow me to set up something that works with an existing table, but I want the ability to add tables without programming. I know how to do this in PHP and I can put the SQL into queries in RoR, but does ActiveRecord let