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...the database has to auditable. Every time a change is made I store a timestamp, a user id, and description of the transaction in a db_transactions table. Every other table has a transaction_id field that references what transaction last created or updated it. How I handle updates now is have a DbTransactions model that contains has_many relationships to all other tables. I create a DbTransaction, add whatever records I am creating or updating and save the DbTransaction item. It works fine. As far as logging goes I am going to add <tablename>_log tables for all of my normal tables and store s...

I am a web developer using PHP and very limited JavaScript. I keep hearing about RoR and am interested in learning it, but before I make the jump I''d like to hear about the types of applications I should be using it for. On all the tutorials you see big apps like stores, social networking, shopping carts, etc. I don''t have any immediate plans to be building something that