# Nicâ?s Magic Models, how about Magic Schema **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [August 8, 2006, 8:53pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/nica-s-magic-models-how-about-magic-schema/101948 "2006-08-08T20:53:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![jpigford](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/b5a626/32.png) [@jpigford](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jpigford)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2006, 8:53pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/nica-s-magic-models-how-about-magic-schema/101948/1 "2006-08-08T20:53:41Z")
I side with David when it comes to databases. They suck! Just my own opinion. So what about the people who don’t want to define validations and stuff in the database, but still want to be DRY. I really hate how the schema is separate from my models. I kind of like how Django defines the table attributes in the model. I was think about trying something like that in Rails. You could define the attributes in the model and run a special generator that creates a migration from the schema. Any ideas? I’m just brian storming right now. ---
**Author:** ![jpigford](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/b5a626/32.png) [@jpigford](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jpigford)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2006, 9:14pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/nica-s-magic-models-how-about-magic-schema/101948/2 "2006-08-08T21:14:11Z")
> I really hate how the schema is separate from my models. I kind of like > how Django defines the table attributes in the model. I was think about > trying something like that in Rails. > > You could define the attributes in the model and run a special generator > that creates a migration from the schema. It’d be interesting to talk with some Django developers - from both small and large projects - to see what works well for them. Does anyone know some Django users we can interrogate? Cheers Nic ---
**Author:** ![jpigford](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/b5a626/32.png) [@jpigford](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jpigford)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2006, 9:17pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/nica-s-magic-models-how-about-magic-schema/101948/3 "2006-08-08T21:17:47Z")
Josh P. wrote: > I side with David when it comes to databases. They suck! Just my own > opinion. Huh?!? Much better than using text files… Joe ---
**Author:** ![jpigford](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/b5a626/32.png) [@jpigford](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jpigford)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2006, 9:24pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/nica-s-magic-models-how-about-magic-schema/101948/4 "2006-08-08T21:24:39Z")
Joe R. wrote: > Josh P. wrote: > > > I side with David when it comes to databases. They suck! Just my own > > opinion. > > Huh?!? Much better than using text files… And they scale a lot better than large XML files 🙂 Paper tape could be an option… ---
**Author:** ![jpigford](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/b5a626/32.png) [@jpigford](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jpigford)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2006, 2:18pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/nica-s-magic-models-how-about-magic-schema/101948/5 "2006-08-15T14:18:43Z")
that’d be great against unemployment! pay people for writing your data to paper, search records etc… the human database… sounds like magic to me 2006/8/8, Dr Nic [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid): > Paper tape could be an option… > > – > Posted via [http://www.ruby-forum.com/](http://www.ruby-forum.com/). > > * * * > > Rails mailing list > removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid > [http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails](http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails) – Michael S. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) [www.stellar-legends.de](http://www.stellar-legends.de) - Weltraum-Browsergame im Alpha-Stadium