Referential Integrity in Rails *Part 2*
Finally, the onslaught of enforcing referential integrity is over…..I have finally succumbed to the manual way of writing bits and pieces of code to enforce it in Rails. It still hits me how the management of this could have been left out in the ORM (Object Relational Mapping) layer. Much like taking a 300 pounds pounce onto the face by Mike Tyson…..
So I finally got a customized blog engine up and running. It’s very lightweight and simple, although the presentation is still not as good as blogspot. I really need to dive into the presentation layer once and for all and master all the tricks in getting my pages looking right. So far I have been concentrating on the integration layer, and also the backend database layer. It amazes me at how the presentation g33ks can come out with a lot of funky ways to make the a page slide and hide. No use in making a gun if no one knows how to use it.
What amazes me more are the mathematics behind these javascripts. Scalable Vector Graphics is where I think I will be looking to prepare for the next internet face-lift revolution.
Kudos to the guys at RedHill Consulting for providing such cool plugins. Though it didn’t help that much in the application level, it does help to enforce integrity at the database level.
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