A lot of people are moving towards Ruby on Rails even at corporate level and giving up the standard Java, .Net way of developing websites for their customers. There are plenty of reasons for that, one of them being their argument that these languages are good at small level but are not scalable enough to solve the needs of corporate level customers. But now even developers who have been coding in java or other languages are increasing looking at solving their problems using frameworks such as Rails or Python/Django. I believe the development curve of any language is steep only because of the time you want to devote to that language. I chose to devote some time to learn a few things in rails that makes life easy or atleast saves a bit of time. So lets see. lets make some rails stuff.
You would know that to create a new application all you need to do is type
rails new application_name
But this configures the application to use the sqlite3 database, If you want to use any other database, you would have to change it manually in the config->database.yml file. But there is a better way to do it, If you are sure, what database you are going to use, you can just specify it at the time to creating the application
rails new application_name -d mysql
The “-d” specifies the database name, you can use any of the databases from the list – mysql, oracle, postgresql, sqlite3, frontbase, ibm_db, sqlserver, jdbcmysql, jdbcsqlite3, jdbcpostgresql, jdbc.
Analects of an Otaku 