Venks wrote:
> It's a science/research project called "MonetDB".
> 
> On Dec 3, 2007 6:37 PM, Deepak Vohra <dvohra09 / yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
>> Which database is it?
>>
>> Venks <venkatesh.mantha / gmail.com> wrote:  Hi,
>>
>> I have a database that has only JDBC connectivity but I need to interact
>> to
>> this database from Ruby. What's the best way to do so? All ideas and
>> suggestions are welcome.
>>
>> My initial thought is to create a Java program that accepts connection
>> information and a SQL statement and execute the SQL against the database.
>> Assuming that I have this program, what's the best way to call this Java
>> program from Ruby?
>>
>> I looked at JRuby and didn't feel that's the right answer.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> -Venks
>>
>>
> 
from the website...There are application bindings for MonetDB/SQL using JDBC, 
ODBC, PHP, Python, Perl and C,...  so you could probably work the C binding into 
Ruby in some fashion.