Hello,

I hope this is the right forum for this announcement, I didn't see a ruby-announce list or anything similar so I'm posting it here.

I just released a Ruby API for my SQL Relay project.

SQL Relay is a set of daemons for unix/linux that maintain persistent connections to databases with API's for executing queries, managing result sets, etc. through those daemons.

It currently supports Oracle, MySQL, mSQL, PostgreSQL, Sybase, IBM DB2, Interbase, Lago, SQLite, MS SQL Server (through FreeTDS) and lots of other databases through ODBC.

You can use SQL Relay for connection pooling, proxying, load balancing, speeding up transient applications, throttling database access, etc.

The API supports advanced database operations like binds, multi-row fetches, client side result set caching and suspended sessions.

If anyone's interested, visit http://www.firstworks.com/sqlrelay.html
The Ruby API is part of the standard SQL Relay distribution.

Thanks,

David Muse
mused / firstworks.com