On 6/2/07, Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I don't know if it's a general problem, but I've been involved in a using rails and it appears to have it's own way of declaring the database. It presumes to handle referential integrity and uniqueness in the application code (!).
I think you've been misled. True, Rails/ActiveRecord does bear the signs of having been designed for MySQL/MyISAM, which has neither transactions nor referential integrity, but this does not mean that Rails does not support these constructs, or that Rails users don't use them. I value my data integrity, so all my relations have RI, unique constraints, null constraints, etc. as in any well-designed schema. Alexander.
