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My teammate Jay just posted another great DSL writeup. See the post right before that one to find out about the Ruby support in IntelliJ that we're very excited about.

I've got another DSL post half-written which I'll try to finish and post tomorrow. The question of how DSL-based systems properly coexist with relational databases deserves discussion and certainly provoked some heated debate on my project over the last week or so. Data (or is it code) stored in a text column seems too denormalized to database folks. But once you start pulling elements of your DSL into their own rows in the database, I'm afraid some of the magic will disappear -- if not now, certainly once other people have to maintain the system?!