It's not dicussed very often, but it is possible to connect a Ruby on Rails app to multiple backend databases. This, paired with the importation of a pre-existing data as outlined in a previous blog post, is useful in scenarios where your application is required to read data from a shared databases populated by another … Continue reading Connecting Ruby on Rails to multiple databases
Migrating a PHP application to Ruby on Rails
Being primarily a PHP / Python developer, I decided to tackle something new and take on ruby on rails. It's been quite a whirlwind, and one of my exersizes was to attempt to migrate a pre-existing PHP application, that already has its database defined, some HTML and so on... to a rails application. This article … Continue reading Migrating a PHP application to Ruby on Rails
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