Hi dvn What can be done with ruby I/O? Rewrite the code in assembly? I work on Arm linux. Does Ruby support the kind of stuff?
regards Nataraj On 12/16/11, Don V Nielsen <donvniel...@gmail.com> wrote: > Ruby is awesome, especially when working with Sqlite...using ActiveRecord. > But its I/O is really slow, so propagating a database is not its thing. > > dvn > > On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 8:32 PM, Nataraj S Narayan > <natara...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> Hi >> >> I am also an ex-clipper. I miss the old 'code blocks' days. I think >> Ruby comes closest to Clipper with its own code blocks. >> >> regards >> >> Nataraj >> >> On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 7:17 AM, Jeff Matthews <j...@xexam.net> wrote: >> > >> > >> > I want to use SQLite in a C# app I am developing. >> > >> > >> > >> > My database knowledge drops off around 1996, when I gave up Clipper >> > programming. I have since learned a little about some of the new >> methods >> > used by database gurus. But I remember Clipper like it was yesterday >> since >> > I did so much of it. >> > >> > >> > >> > Here is a short snippet of the logic I recall using back when: >> > >> > >> > >> > Select (0) // Provides allocation for a new file handle for opening a >> > database >> > >> > Use Customers // Will open Customers dbf, where in those days, each >> table >> > was its own file, and thus, we had multiple dbf files in an app to use >> > relational data. >> > >> > Set Index to Phone, LastName // The indexes were also stored in >> separate >> > files. >> > >> > Set Order to 2 // This would mean that our seeks would use the >> > LastName >> > index's sort order >> > >> > >> > >> > seek "MATTHEWS" // Try to find the first instance of search string in >> the >> > index and move record pointer to the row, or if not found, eof() >> > >> > >> > >> > numrecs=0 >> > >> > if found(); >> > >> > do while trim(upper(LastName))="MATTHEWS" .and. !eof() >> // >> > cycle through the records and stop if eof() is hit >> > >> > delete // delete the entire row >> > >> > numrecs=numrecs+1 >> > >> > skip // go to next record >> > >> > enddo >> > >> > endif >> > >> > showMessage(ltrim(str(numrecs,0))+" records deleted.") >> > >> > >> > >> > That's it. >> > >> > >> > >> > I am not wanting to have to deal with excitingly new ways to do all >> > this, >> > such as DataSets or Entities, unless someone says, "But, you must!" or >> > "You're crazy not to." >> > >> > >> > >> > So, which is the best SQLite download for me to use in C# using the >> closest >> > syntax and logic flow as set forth above? I am ready to download and >> start >> > hacking. >> > >> > >> > >> > Thanks. >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > sqlite-users mailing list >> > sqlite-users@sqlite.org >> > http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users >> _______________________________________________ >> sqlite-users mailing list >> sqlite-users@sqlite.org >> http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users >> > _______________________________________________ > sqlite-users mailing list > sqlite-users@sqlite.org > http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users > _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@sqlite.org http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
