search for: howtoquerythedatabasedirectly

Hi, I''m considering migrating my site from php to RoR. I''ve installed RoR gone through the onlamp tutorials and made the recipie/todo list sample sites and tinkered with a few of my own. I understand the examples that use models and scaffolding to map tables, but I''m having a little trouble understanding how to handle general purpose queries. A few people have