[clue-tech] WAS: MS Access

[Keith Hellman]

On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 08:16:14PM -0700, Brian Gibson wrote:
> Rails is awesome, but it is a framework and would not work out of the
> box like Access and its form creator.   Rails defaults to sqlite for its
> database backend.  Works great for development purposes, but I'd be
> hesitant about using it for concurrent multiple users.  Rails uses a DB
> for object relational mapping and is mostly database agnostic as long as
> you don't depend on a database-specific feature, so it wouldn't be too
> hard to switch DB backends if necessary.  Rails has a feature called
> migrations and keeps track of the database schema which makes switching
> easy.  In fact, a common scenario is to use sqlite for development and
> mysql for deployment. 

Fascinating.  I've been reading up on web frameworks lately and working
through some tutorials.  And I'm pretty sure you could s/Rails/Django/g
in the above statement and it would all still be true...

Not trying to start a flame-war, just an observation.

(It is so rare that I can post something intelligent to the list, that
I've decided to lower my triviality threshold :^)

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