RoR, Judge Judy, and little old ladies

[Sean Kelly]

Bruno Medeiros wrote:
> Robby wrote:
>> Bruno Medeiros wrote:
>>> In both cases, Ruby code is generated from
>>> code in these two DSLs, but that code generation is performed not by 
>>> the Ruby compiler during compile-time, but by an external tool 
>>> (similar to parser generators for example).
>> No, it's done with Ruby during run time, using Ruby's dynamic and 
>> reflective abilities.
> 
> Hum, I had understood scaffolding to be the process where it generated 
> Ruby code by looking at the DB schema. So if I change the DB schema, I 
> don't have to run scaffolding again? I only need to restart the web app, 
> since it can reflectively and dynamically create its own ORM logic?

Unless you actually want to do something with that data, I assume.


Sean