Re: FN-FORUM: What's the best development platform for creating Web 2.0 business applications?

date posted 21st November 2007 09:34


>>> Maybe I'm missing something but Rails looks excellent at building
>>> something from scratch, but where there is an existing something (in
>> Providing your database conforms to certain rules, you can use rake
>> migrate
>> to use it within rails
> Rake migrate is a tool to migrate a database between certain version
> numbers
That's what I thought it was for and that was about the point I got to
in my evaluation.

> Rails uses certain conventions for the database but, at the end of the
> day, they are only conventions. For example, a column named 'id' is the
This is really where I came in. Not all of my tables have a single ID
field, and I prefer not to use autonumber fields. Often a record will be
identified by many fields, I think the most I've used is four fields
(each one of these fields being a relationship to another table).

The question is could rails handle this easily?