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6.8. Resources

There are not all that many specific external resources to point to in this chapter.

Much of the discussion of using legacy databases was fueled by two articles in the Rails wiki, http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/HowtoUseMultipleDatabases and http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/HowtoUseMultipleDatabasesWithFixtures. In addition, there's a discussion of using proxy objects for covering legacy databases in Rails Recipes by Chad Fowler (Pragmatic Bookshelf, 2006).

If there's a funny side to SQL injection, it's in the incomparable XKCD strip at http://xkcd.com/327.

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