# Enterprise and Legacy Database support

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/enterprise-and-legacy-database-support/104584>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [May 19, 2007, 11:26pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/enterprise-and-legacy-database-support/104584 "2007-05-19T23:26:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![Clifford\_H](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/49beb7/32.png) [@Clifford\_H](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Clifford_H)\
**Post date:** [May 19, 2007, 11:26pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/enterprise-and-legacy-database-support/104584/1 "2007-05-19T23:26:30Z")

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Folk,

I ran a Birds-Of-a-Feather (BOF) session at  
RailsConf2007 on this subject on Thursday  
evening. It was enthusiastically received,  
and the attendees were keen to continue  
communicating and collaborating. We decided  
to form a new mailing list on Yahoo, which  
has now been done.

If you’re interested in helping fix the issues  
with Rails’ support for existing databases  
or enterprise schemas, you should consider  
joining us at

[http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/enterprise-rails/](http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/enterprise-rails/)

My notes and those taken by Keith Smith and  
Jordan Duggan are posted as a message and as  
a file on the Yahoo site.

I’ve discussed the areas with Koz (of the core  
team), and he’s indicated that there should  
be no problems getting sufficient support  
in the form of frozen hook APIs etc, so we  
should be able to make good progress.

Thanks for your attention, and do please  
consider getting involved in making Rails as  
much of a killer in the Enterprise as it is  
already in the public internet sphere.

There were enterprise Rails issues mentioned  
other than database support ones, including  
deployment under IIS and UI widget library  
support. Because this was not the focus of the  
BOF, and is not the primary focus of this  
group, I’ll leave those issues to be raised again  
by whomever in interested. There wasn’t much  
discussion of them anyway. If the volume of  
messages in the new forum later justifies it,  
the discussions on these related topics can be  
taken off-line or to a new list.

Clifford H., list owner, BOF organiser,  
removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid, and author of  
ActiveFacts (see RubyForge or my site)