On Mar 15, 2007, at 2:07 PM, S. Robert James wrote: > On this point, what I'd like to see - ideally - is using something > like DBI at the base level, with AR building on top of it.
I presume you are referring to: http://rubyforge.org/projects/ruby-dbi/ Anyone have experience using it? -- Ernie P. > On this point, what I'd like to see - ideally - is using something > like DBI at the base level, with AR building on top of it. DBI lacks > some functionality that AR has - but that can be added into DBI just > as easily as AR. This would make porting AR to new databases easier, > and would also allow cross polination between Rails' users and the > general Ruby community at large (who may want to access their db's > without AR). (Note: if there are other problems with DBI that I'm not > aware of - we could still use something similar - the point is to have > 1 layer for querying, reflecting on, and talking to the DB, and > another layer for AR's magic --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Core" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-core?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
