Well, to be accurate it is a Rails app without Active Record. Due to 
the way it's designed, AR won't work with non-SQL databases (and that 
will probably never change). However, it would be possible to create 
something that mimics AR through duck typing. But methods like 
find_by_sql would be a bit tricky, of course :)

//samuel

>
> The latest announcement about Instiki being on Rails now got me to
> wondering....
>
> Instiki uses Madeleine as it's database (object persistence).  So I'm
> thinking that this means that Rails (specifically ActiveRecords) has
> built-in support for using Madeleine (correct assumption?), meaning 
> that
> madeleine can be specified as the adapter in the database.yml file?  
> But
> if you do that how do you set up your tables since I don't think 
> madeleine
> accepts SQL.
> (NOTE: I am a total newbie  to SQL, databases, etc. so I may be using
> incorrect terminology and/or assumptions here)
>
> Phil
>
>

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