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oh thanks.. Maybe I should hav a look at these document databases as well




On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 10:26 AM, David Masover <ninja / slaphack.com> wrote:

> On Tuesday 22 July 2008 23:45:15 Thilanka Marasinghe wrote:
>
> > I'm trying to learn ruby and want to am into database and data mining
> > development and am curious if I could combine both together
>
> The Rails community seems to want to avoid writing any SQL at all, and
> would
> rather work with document databases (things like ThruDB, SimpleDB, and
> BigTable).
>
> That said... Yes, absolutely, depending on the database. Ruby has adapters
> for
> most major database engines. You're probably going to want to learn some
> SQL...
>
> A quick Google for "ruby database mining" shows something called Ruminate,
> but
> I can't find any active development lately -- so if you're looking for a
> prebuilt solution, you're probably on your own.
>
>

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