O'Reilly Network: Ruby on Rails: An Interview with David Heinemeier Hansson

O'Reilly Network: Ruby on Rails: An Interview with David Heinemeier Hansson, via LtU. I liked citylight's comment on LtU entitled "ActiveRecord and the relational model". Why is it exactly that we can't use relational algebra directly instead of SQL, especially since RA is used internally in query optimization?

Update: I particularly liked this part of the interview:

It's hard enough to solve your own problems with eloquence. Trying to solve other people's problems is damn near impossible—at least to do so to the level of satisfaction that would make me interested in the solution.

That's why we hold the notion that "frameworks are extractions" so very dear in the Rails community. Frameworks are not designed before the fact. They're extracted when you've proved to yourself that an approach works. Whenever we get ahead of ourselves and try to leap over the extraction process, we come back sorely disappointed.

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