From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <5480eb5b48baf626b0c86719df8647a6@quanstro.net> References: <9ab217670904161050y4e51be4ey7117a27985f10d93@mail.gmail.com> <5480eb5b48baf626b0c86719df8647a6@quanstro.net> Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2009 15:46:04 -0400 Message-ID: <326364c20904171246l691d6a32rc63980f793f38b44@mail.gmail.com> From: Tom Lieber To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: [9fans] Rails? (was Re: web server) Topicbox-Message-UUID: e2f3abe6-ead4-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 2:51 PM, erik quanstrom wro= te: > without some constraints on the data, you can't show that your design > works. =C2=A0without some idea of what the data could be, how do you pick > appropriate algorithms? The point of the model is to enforce constraints. It is the gateway to the data store. The algorithms are part of the model code. > and then two weeks later the director of marketing would be in my office > talking about his new idea. =C2=A0it was uncanny how it managed to always= ask > for something we just couldn't do. Rails' model library gets bigger and bigger all the time! --=20 Tom Lieber http://AllTom.com/