DHH: Scaling to multiple DBs with Rails

http://www.loudthinking.com/posts/3-scaling-to-multiple-databases-with-rails

by keven • 19 years ago

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jamiequint3• 19 years ago

DHH certainly isn't even attempting to hide his tone of this post (obviously he is not a big fan of the Twitter guys) but I can't help but agree. If you want something done put some effort into doing yourself instead of putting your effort into whining about it. 75 lines of Ruby, wow.

aston• 19 years ago

Granted, 75 lines of Ruby represents a substantial amount of logic.

timg• 19 years ago

I was going to make a joke about this topic before I read your comment but this is actually true.

Tichy2• 19 years ago

I don't think the number of lines is too much of an indicator for the effort involved. Before you can write those 75 lines, you have to understand Rails well enough to be able to write them. Beforehand, you might not even now that it will "only" be 75 lines - and how long does it take you to know?

jamesbritt2• 19 years ago

This is an important point. Saying that someone can go and add this or that feature to a framework requires that they first have enough understanding to know where to begin. In Rails, this can be less than obvious.

To say "... extending Rails to do what you want is often much simpler than you think" is disingenuous at best.

socmoth• 19 years ago

this is really old news.

DHH: Scaling to multiple DBs with Rails

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