Hi there guys,
I'm in the need of developing an application to generate reports based on a legacy database.
Has anyone played in this area before? Any suggestions on how this can be accomplished using Rails? Gems, tools, etc?
Oh, the data store is an Oracle Database, which I think doesn't really matter as the framework is agnostic.
Thanks,
If you google for rails legacy database it will give you some good links on how to handle a legacy db. If you are only reading the db then with luck there will be no great problems. It can be more tricky if you have to write to the db also. set_primary_key will probably appear regularly in your models, as will foreign_key in the relationships.
I would start by just setting up the models for the db tables and relationships and write some automated tests to make sure that you are able to read the data ok. Then go on from there.
Colin