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SQL on Rails Launched
Daniel writes "Developers have created a new Rails framework for SQL, SQL on Rails. Check out the screen cast that shows you how to develop an internet search engine with three lines of code. Version 4.1 of the SQL on Rails framework is available for download on the site, and the O'Reilly title is expected to hit shelves next month." ZOMG L@@K at the kitten site it powers!@#!11
this has to be one of the best put together april fools jokes i have seen in a long time. i'm impressed.
-- Bryan
... there are days when it's actually a good thing to be among the 6% of males that are color-blind. Today is one such day.
I've been trying to set up a new web server running in a VMWare instance of Fedora Core 5 on Windows XP Home booting on an Intel Mac. Anyone know if SQL on Rails is compatible with this setup?
I'm trying to download the development files and you're all slowing me down.
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What are you eating? isItVeg?.
'Tis sad that we must wait until April 2 to be fooled.
Ponies ruul!!
I feel like a total n00b. I spent all last summer learning php/MySQL to redesign my site, and I only now realise it's pronounced 'Sequel' as opposed to "S-Q-L" as I'd been mentally calling it. Similarly, it took me a Java course at university to learn how to say C#.. the issues of being a lonely geek without others to converse with (in real life) and learn proper pronunciations.
Traditionally with SQL, a user is capable of perfoming one or more unrestrained queries, which can bring a traditional database to its knees. What SQL has been lacking, up until this point, is stability and restraint. This is why rails are necessary for SQL.
Rails help to keep SQL on the tracks and to prevent queries from running unrestrained against a database. With rails, you don't have to worry about unsafe queries against your database. Everything is tightly controlled, and you can have a simple three line search engine without a great deal of overhead that normally goes into all of that normalization, checking, deadlock prevention, etc etc.
Finally! I'm waiting for HTML on Rails next!
OMG!!! I love the MS-DOS 3.2 Terminal window under Mac OS X. :):):)
Jory
You're kind of an idiot, aren't you.
I hate rails. Rails caused the demise of the Pony Express!1
how many pairs of boxer shorts should you own?
From the INSTALL documentation in the download:
You don't need to be root because the SQL On Rails installer will just use the appropriate priviledge escalation method for your OS version.ghehe..
The best way to accelerate a windows server is by 9.81 m/s2
I've written and supported giant applications for years using SQL on Rails -- except we called it Oracle Web Server, Oracle Application Server and Oracle WebDB. Just like in the Rails screencast, you had one giant file that contained all your HTML, SQL, and dynamic code. To run the app you just imported the massive SQL file into the database, which looked like this:
CREATE OR REPLACE PROCEDURE hello_world IS
begin
htp.print('<html>');
htp.print('<head>');
htp.print('<title>HTP.PRINT Example...</title>');
htp.print('</head>');
htp.print('<body>');
htp.print('<h1>Hello, World!<h1>');
htp.print('</body>');
htp.print('</html>');
end;
This technology was sold as the premier way to write web apps for many years. Universities taught CS students to code with this, consultants in dark suits charged $150+ an hour to develop with it, and corporate clients paid tens of thousands of dollars per instance. I sincerely wish I was joking.
The screencast is probably the funniest thing I've seen all day. It has lots of amusing little details that made me smile. This mirror seems pretty fast: http://screencast17.sqlonrails.org/video/screencas t2_lq.mov