Well, you are probably wondering what prompted my last post about ‘sql ghettos’. And well you might. The incident that spawned the term happened over a year ago. But, I thought I should get my personal stand on the matter…
Web development frameworks and SQL ghettos.
My platform of choice is Ruby on Rails. In an early project, I implemented some reports by coding special purpose sql statements embedded within model methods. This worked well, and allowed the reports to run reasonably speedily. As I continued…