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Steve Tuckner

-----Original Message-----
From: Florian G. Pflug [mailto:fgp / phlo.org]
Sent: Friday, May 04, 2001 8:56 AM
To: ruby-talk / ruby-lang.org
Subject: [ruby-talk:14632] Re: Database Abstraction Framework


On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 10:43:32PM +0900, Renald Buter wrote:
> On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 03:02:00PM +0100, ruby-talk / ruby-lang.org wrote:
> > Actually, the only interface i know (a very little bit) which works
(partly)
> > like this is the db-interface
> > in visual basic. But of course, this can be implemented in ruby in a
much
> > more elegant way...
> Hmmm. I like the DBI approach better, or even de JDBC approach. Using DBI
> would allow Perl converts (like me :) to adapt more easily...
Since I never used Perl, but of course want to steal any good idea I can
find for my interface ( if I actually get to write it).....

How does the Perl DBI Interface work?

> FWIW, I was just looking around for the same thing, but I did not code
> anything yet, since a MySQL interface _is_ available -- which is enough
for
> me at the moment
Well, I plan to build my library on top of libmysql-ruby (but of course also
want to to support other dbs - but since I used only mysql until yet, I will
start with this).

greetings, Florian Pflug