Hi -
I'm thinking about porting an ASP.NET app to rails. This will require complete re-write of the site's code, and I'm fine with it. With ASP.NET I use a lot of MySQL views constructed from tables, and I wondered how I could do this with rails.
I just started reading about RoR since I heard a lot of good things about it and wanted a piece of the action. I'm really resisting the urge to go with Django, even though I have a solid background with python (any thoughts?). Thing is, I'm really used to formulating my own DB queries, and rails handles all of those behind the scenes -- not necessarily a bad thing, just need to get used to it. My question is, is there a way to build rails apps with explicit queries, or mix ActiveRecord action with those? I'd love to some feedback. Thanks!
