Ruby on Rails Wednesday, December 29, 2010

> I advise against this course of action in the strongest possible terms.
> Normalizing the schema will be easy. Refactoring the application code
> will be easy if you have proper tests. But normalizing the data already
> entered into the denormalized schema will be nearly impossible.
>
> This is one of those things that you want to get right the first time.
> Normalize your schema. It's easier to denormalize later than to
> normalize later.

Ok thanks, I am going to ask my boss to move the launch deadline in
order to avoid those problems.

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