frankjmat...@gmail.com wrote: > the question that could summarize this in a nutshell is this: > > does the orm structure of rails make it a poor framework to implement > a small erp/crm solution?
No. It should be fine. > > if you got that then please read ahead - i need some suggestions... > > ive been making an app for my small business. now believe me, i know > there's a ton of solutions out there but coding is more like a > recreational activity so i enjoy doing it regardless... > > my program has the basic ability to generate quotes, track my > inventory and all the basic functions however i'm finding it more and > more difficult to make it extensible. > > for example - i have a customer model (to put it simply) and say i > want to add an TaxID column... i can use migrations and update all of > my forms and blah blah blah... most "good" crm programs allow you to > add this functionality on the fly - i would like to add that > functionality. If you want arbitrary user-defined columns, check out the serialize method. You could also have the app change the DB schema programmatically, but that sounds dangerous. > > don't get me wrong - i dont care about the UI design and javascript > thats involved... that's all secondary to me. i want to know at the > model/controller level if this sort of thing is not only possible but > probable with rails. (by "this sort of thing" i mean dynamically > creating/altering models on the fly with a running app). Yes! > > Thanks in advance - hopefully someone with deep insight will step up > to the plate for me. I've asked around and i've yet to receive > anything that looks like a helpful answer. Best, -- Marnen Laibow-Koser http://www.marnen.org mar...@marnen.org -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
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