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

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