matthias wrote: > Up to now I developed some small basic Rails applications. I've always > started with a DB model and the rails mapping worked as expected. > > > Now I'm confronted with the situation, that the DB model is already done, > and I cannot change it. Of course there is no rails naming convention, > So I need to programm the SQL statements. You might have better results posting this to the Rails mailing list at http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo.