Brian Blackwell: > A quick introduction: I was previously a member of Wayne Kelly's > Ruby.NET team, and I am now looking forward to making a contribution > to the IronRuby community. I have recently been looking into what is > involved with database API support in IronRuby. Our current thinking > is that it might make sense to implement our database support in pure > (Iron)Ruby, using CLR interop to connect to various databases using > ADO.NET. The email below discusses SQLite3 support using this approach > - the attached zip file contains a quick and dirty prototype. > > (I am posting this message again as I have realized that including > System.Data.SQLite.DLL in the zip file was a little bit indulgent :-) > You can grab it from http://sqlite.phxsoftware.com/)
Thanks for doing this! One thing to worry about re: DB APIs is the presence of unmanaged code in ADO.NET. There's certainly quite a bit of unmanaged code in the SQL Server driver in ADO.NET, which is what makes it difficult / impossible to port to run on other platforms like Linux. Now, assuming that the SQLite driver is pure managed code, I think this is a great solution (heck even if it isn't, it means that we can get some things working with this sooner rather than later). Thanks, -John _______________________________________________ Ironruby-core mailing list [email protected] http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/ironruby-core
