Re: [development] Form field maxlengths vs. database field sizes

Ruby on Rails's ActiveRecord does this database->form mapping amazingly well. We should take some of their concepts into Drupal, and I therefor encourage everyone to do a 20 minute quickstart in RoR development. Just to get the feeling of how Drupal /could be/ in this database mapping smartness!

Active Record is a standard OO pattern. Ruby on Rails did not invent this idea. It's been around for more than a decade.