Yeah there's a lot of other neat tricks you can do with it. Someone else in this thread observes that a major issue for most Rails apps is latency. Loading a pa

Yeah there's a lot of other neat tricks you can do with it. Someone else in this thread observes that a major issue for most Rails apps is latency. Loading a page does 100 blocking queries serially which means 100 roundtrips (minimum), the latency from that adds up and before you know it your fast computers are taking seconds to render a page. Although it often gets lost inside app frameworks, you can use the Oracle drivers to dispatch every query at once in one request, or even just execute a stored procedure that has all the queries for a page registered inside the DB then work through the results from each query client-side. So you can really optimize the latency heavily if you can structure your app in such a way that it can exploit such things. JDBC supports this for instance but Active Record doesn't.