Can I use associations when using Ruby on Rails w/Amazon SimpleDB?

StackOverflow https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1444711

  •  22-07-2019
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Question

For a new project my company is considering using Amazon SimpleDB to simplify data storage. The app is a simplistic web dashboard that will be created using Ruby on Rails. What I'm wondering, though, is if I can still use associations like has_many and belongs_to while using SimpleDB as the backend.

For instance, the application has users who log in and have messages. In "normal" Rails with MySQL I could easily do this with the built-in associations. Will using SimpleDB as the storage engine prevent me from doing this? Also, will I have to re-implement the login functionality? I was initially going to use the restful_authentication plugin, but I have no idea if I will have to rewrite it to work with SimpleDB.

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Solution

I think SimpleDB will be a problem for your wishes....

(and i tink you have to reimplement the login authentication as well, because its based on ActiveRecord like all the other models)..

OTHER TIPS

You should check out SimpleRecord, just like ActiveRecord, but using SimpleDB for backend.

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