Thomas Stromberg wrote:

# Richard A. Schulman wrote:
# 
# > Are there other Ruby users besides myself who would like to
# > see a database binding from Ruby to IBM's DB2 UDB?
# 
# I would myself.. no use at the moment, but I can see it's inevitable 
usage 
# here.  I've pretty much run into having to connect to every other 
database 
# but DB2 and Interbase so far. 
[...]
# The only thing I would like to add here, is that I'd like to see it, as 
# well as more things, use the RDBC module. If the RDBC module has flaws, 
# then something similar. I really would love to see a standardized 
interface 
# for accessing all SQL dabases, similar to Perl's DBI. How active is RDBC 

# development? What do people think about it?
# 
# Perl has flourished since DBI gained the upper hand. I'd like to see the 

# same thing happen in Ruby, where the database a project can use is 
decided 
# by SQL compliance (of the code, and the db server) rather then whatever 
the 
# developer used. I'd rather avoid the chaos I work with in PHP at the 
moment.

I don't know much about Perl/DBI other than that a lot of work and thought 
went into it. I know nothing about RDBC. 

Does anyone know how similar Ruby/RDBC is to Perl/DBI, or in what 
important ways they differ, and for what reasons? 

Would there be any advantage to a Ruby/DBI that followed Perl/DBI pretty 
closely, given that (1) there is a Perl/DBI book, (2) Perl/DBI reflects a 
lot of experience, and (3) to make it easier for people to migrate from 
Perl/DBI to Ruby/DBI?

Conrad Schneiker
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