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    <title>Robby on Rails: Ruby on Rails, Refactoring Databases, and the Legacy System</title>
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      <title>Ruby on Rails, Refactoring Databases, and the Legacy System</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;To avoid feeling like I have neglected my blog lately&amp;#8230; I wanted to point out a few things.&lt;/p&gt;


	&lt;p&gt;First of all&amp;#8230; there is a nice new book that was sitting at &lt;a href="http://www.powells.com/"&gt;Powells&lt;/a&gt; technical bookstore just a few hours ago&amp;#8230; and is now sitting on my desk. I read a few pages on the bus ride home today of &lt;a href="http://www.powells.com/biblio/71-0321293533-0"&gt;Refactoring Database: Evolutionary Database Design&lt;/a&gt;. It&amp;#8217;s a &lt;a href="http://www.martinfowler.com/"&gt;Martin Fowler&lt;/a&gt; signature book and you can read more by Scott W. Ambler (one of the authors) at &lt;a href="http://www.agiledata.org"&gt;Agile Data&lt;/a&gt;. So far it seems like a good book if you&amp;#8217;re into database schemas and if your a fan of the &lt;a href="http://www.refactoring.com/"&gt;Refactoring&lt;/a&gt; scene. :-)&lt;/p&gt;


	&lt;p&gt;In other news&amp;#8230; &lt;a href="http://jvoorhis.com"&gt;Jeremy&lt;/a&gt; and I are preparing for our journey up to Vancouver, B.C. this week. Jeremy will be presenting his talk about i18n and Ruby on Rails&amp;#8230; and I&amp;#8217;ll be presenting my talk about using Ruby on Rails with Legacy databases. I look forward to meeting those of you who are making the trip to &lt;a href="http://www.canadaonrails.org"&gt;Canada on Rails&lt;/a&gt; (which is &lt;strong&gt;sold-out&lt;/strong&gt;!) and if you don&amp;#8217;t catch us there&amp;#8230; we will also be presenting at &lt;a href="http://railsconf.org"&gt;RailsConf 2006&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;/p&gt;


	&lt;p&gt;If you&amp;#8217;re going to be in Vancouver this week and would like to meet us for some drinks, hacking, or whatever&amp;#8230; stop by on &lt;strong&gt;#canadaonrails&lt;/strong&gt; (irc.freenode.net) and let us know. :-)&lt;/p&gt;


	&lt;h3&gt;Related Post(s)&lt;/h3&gt;


	&lt;ul&gt;
	&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.robbyonrails.com/articles/2005/07/25/the-legacy-of-databases-with-rails"&gt;The legacy of databases with Rails&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
		&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://robbyonrails.com/articles/2005/09/27/the-bitter-sweet-taste-of-agnostic-database-schemas"&gt;The bitter-sweat taste of agnostic database schemas&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
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      <pubDate>Mon, 10 Apr 2006 20:11:00 -0500</pubDate>
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      <author>Robby Russell</author>
      <link>http://www.robbyonrails.com/articles/2006/04/10/ruby-on-rails-refactoring-databases-and-the-legacy-system</link>
      <category>Ruby on Rails</category>
      <category>Ruby</category>
      <category>Programming</category>
      <category>PostgreSQL</category>
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      <title>"Ruby on Rails, Refactoring Databases, and the Legacy System" by Frederick Ros</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;Hi Robby,&lt;/p&gt;


	&lt;p&gt;As said before I wrote a small recipe on integration of RoR with MySQL legacy database: &lt;a href="http://fora.pragprog.com/rails-recipes/write-your-own/post/84" rel="nofollow"&gt;http://fora.pragprog.com/rails-recipes/write-your-own/post/84&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;


	&lt;p&gt;I also began to write a small doc on it, but for now it&amp;#8217;s not yet fully completed:&lt;/p&gt;


	&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://sl33p3r.free.fr/tutorials/rails/legacy/legacy_databases.html" rel="nofollow"&gt;http://sl33p3r.free.fr/tutorials/rails/legacy/legacy_databases.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 12 Apr 2006 00:14:01 -0500</pubDate>
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