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by stcredzero 4792 days ago
I think it's a cool idea. So have lots of others over the decades. (From the 70's I'd bet.) In a way, RoR is just the latest wrinkle in this quest. If you can do it, you might well have something. (BTW, are you familiar with SQLAlchemy?) If you are serious, I invented a graphical interface for dynamically exploring reporting information from such an app.
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tocomment 4792 days ago
The SQLAlchemy thing sounds cool. I was thinking more about CRUD than reporting but that might be a useful product too.

The only issue with the universal CRUD tool is I have no idea how to market it?

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stcredzero 4792 days ago
You can use the ORM infrastructure that enables CRUD to also produce dynamic reporting.

> The only issue with the universal CRUD tool is I have no idea how to market it?

The dynamic reporting thing can be sexy. It would be a great way to sell such a tool. It's like pivot tables, but entirely graphical. It was based on a Smalltalk web plugin when I wrote it. I was going revive this project and make it an iPad app.

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