Hi,
Im just starting RoR so forgive me if I ask some stupid questions. Is it easier to create the a DB with a couple of tables through ruby on rails or can I just as easily work with the DB if I already created it through a front end app like HeidiSQL?
r@ils3nvy wrote:
Hi,
Im just starting RoR so forgive me if I ask some stupid questions. Is it easier to create the a DB with a couple of tables through ruby on rails or can I just as easily work with the DB if I already created it through a front end app like HeidiSQL?
It should work either way, but rails apps need to have a column called id for every table and that id needs to be the key. As long as you have that for all your tables you should be golden. It would, however, be a good idea to create your tables - if you can - using rails because it can automagically generate the structure for you and in that way you can insure that the tables were constructed properly.
-S
Besides that rails generates migrations for you which is a very useful feature as you can rollback the changes in your database if they don't satisfy you...