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iwz Dec 1, 2005

So, wow, rails is really cool. Ruby itself seems pretty cool too. So, since you were into trying out an ezabel rails incarnation, I thought I'd give it a try myself. First question: Should...

iwz Dec 1, 2005

and, sheesh, the eZabel schema needs a lot of cleaning up to work well with rails. but in a good way

deanh77Founder

Dec 1, 2005

yeah? don't forget about single table inheritance!

iwz

Dec 1, 2005

not familiar with this, yet. does this have something to do with that reserved word "type" for database columns? i got some error about that because i had a CATEGORY.TYPE column. had to rename it.

deanh77Founder

Dec 1, 2005

yes. I remember you have like a generic table that contains data for either an Article, an Journal, a Thread.

if those are subclasses of a generic "Content" class, then the name of the table would be "contents" and an article would have "Article" in the 'type' column (rails places this value when you create and save a "Article" object)

this is single-table-inheritance.

if you get more interested in this, you should check out the book: "Agile Web Development with Rails"

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