database dependencies

[drewda]

@adamjacobbecker, are you building this library with just Postgres in mind? Or do you plan to support other databases behind ActiveRecord?

Just asking since I see mention of an hstore column.

[ajb]

Hmm... so hstore lets us do a lot of cool things that wouldn't otherwise be possible, like sorting on the response columns. Thanks for bringing this up though -- I'll add a note in the readme. It shouldn't be too hard to add support for a serialized text field instead, but you'll lose a bunch of functionality.

[drewda]

Having implemented this kind of forms, fields, and, responses schema with
only tables and relations a few times in the past, I definitely see the
power of an hstore column to consolidate a lot of complexity. (If only the
folks at Amazon would also--and add Postgres support to AWS RDS.) Anyways,
support for a serialized text column sounds like a decent bone to throw to
MySQL users at some point.

On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 9:31 AM, Adam Becker notifications@github.comwrote:

Hmm... so hstore lets us do a lot of cool things that wouldn't otherwise
be possible, like sorting on the response columns. Thanks for bringing this
up though -- I'll add a note in the readme. It shouldn't be too hard to add
support for a serialized text field instead, but you'll lose a bunch of
functionality.

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[lustercr]

has anyone implemented this serialized field customization for allowing mysql support ? i would like to get a clue on this

Thanks

[JakeAustwick]

@lustercr It hasn't been implemented as of yet, although the above issue of Amazon RDS not supporting Postgres is no longer true.

[RailsCod3rFuture]

Has anyone implemented MySQL support as of yet?