The M in MVC has nothing to do with database persistence. That is a wonderful perception that rails and its ilk have given us, for better or worse. You could build a complete system that fully implements MVC without database persistence, or really any persistence at all.

For your enlightenment MVC isn't what you think it means.

http://andrzejonsoftware.blogspot.ca/2011/09/rails-is-not-mv...

Even if you are using the Rails version of the term MVC, as one commenter was keen to point out, it still has nothing to do with having data persistence or not.

I think he meant

    [ u s e r @ma c h i n e E x amp l e ] $ . . / mo n o r a i l . j s i n s t a l l mo o t o o l s

Wow, what a hostile response.