On Saturday 28 August 2010 12:50:32 pm Rich Shepard wrote: > On Sat, 28 Aug 2010, John R Pierce wrote: > > does Rails even let you near the SQL? I thought it had a total ORM > > abstraction layer that assumes all databases are more or less MySQL, and > > it didn't let you anywhere near the actual relational aspects. > > According to my software engineer partner, you're correct. It doesn't > use SQL, but it's own embedded language. And, while postgres can be used, > he prefers mysql and that's directly supported by Rails. > > Rich It uses SQL to do the actual communication with the db. That is hidden behind Ruby(http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/) for programming and YAML(http://www.yaml.org/) for configuration. FYI Postgres is one of the three suggested databases to use: http://guides.rubyonrails.org/getting_started.html -- Adrian Klaver adrian.klaver@xxxxxxxxx -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
