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Dubious location of database in Tutorial?
In the Tutorial, the database is put into the data/ directory. But elsewhere in the documentation, the data/ directory is described as a place for "transient data, such as caches". The database hardly seems transient. Strangely, the db/ directory is where the SQL goes, but not the database itself.
Consider improving the description of these directories. Or if appropriate, give them more correct names.
Yeah - I guess I didn't think about this hard because it would only matter for a demo using sqlite -- on a real website the database would be off on its own server. But I'll make a note about this or move it to db/ or something.
Jon
On Sep 27, 2012, at 8:20 PM, Jeffrey Ryan Thalhammer wrote:
In the Tutorial, the database is put into the data/ directory. But elsewhere in the documentation, the data/ directory is described as a place for "transient data, such as caches". The database hardly seems transient. Strangely, the db/ directory is where the SQL goes, but not the database itself.
Consider improving the description of these directories. Or if appropriate, give them more correct names.
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On Oct 1, 2012, at 4:54 AM, Jonathan Swartz wrote:
Yeah - I guess I didn't think about this hard because it would only matter for a demo using sqlite -- on a real website the database would be off on its own server. But I'll make a note about this or move it to db/ or something.
Well I'm using sqlite, so a local directory for the database probably makes a lot of sense. I just think the descriptions of the data/ and db/ directories need to be clarified a bit (at least for a novice like me). I appreciate that Poet is so neatly organized. Catalyst -- not so much.
-Jeff
On Oct 1, 2012, at 11:44 AM, Jeffrey Ryan Thalhammer wrote:
On Oct 1, 2012, at 4:54 AM, Jonathan Swartz wrote:
Yeah - I guess I didn't think about this hard because it would only matter for a demo using sqlite -- on a real website the database would be off on its own server. But I'll make a note about this or move it to db/ or something.
Well I'm using sqlite, so a local directory for the database probably makes a lot of sense. I just think the descriptions of the data/ and db/ directories need to be clarified a bit (at least for a novice like me). I appreciate that Poet is so neatly organized. Catalyst -- not so much.
Yeah, fair enough. The data/ directory is really characterized by "anything that isn't checked into version control" - so a sqlite database would belong there, rather than in db/, which is for checked-in sql files. I'll make this more clear.
Jon