OT, disregard if you don't care about ODBC or Perl... > ---- I think Ruby's DBI (at least for Win32) is not as mature as Perl's by a > long shot. I really miss that, because I make *extensive* use of the Perl > DBI.
I've been doing heavy ODBC work with Ruby's DBI (on Win32) for the last few weeks, and it looks good from here-- that is, I haven't yet found anything I can't do with the Ruby DBI. In some ways, Ruby's DBI is easier to use (for me) than Perl's. Mostly because returns from SQL statements seem to always be either arrays or AoAs, which I find really intuitive to use, where in Perl's DBI, returns are generally hashes, and you have to be pretty familiar with the DBI docs to figure out how to address the data. I realize that Perl's DBI is a lot older and has a lot more bells and whistles, but (so far) I haven't needed those features, and Ruby DBI seems to be easier to use. And that's not even talking about ActiveRecord, which I have yet to fool with. That said, the instant I need a feature available with Perl's DBI not available with Ruby's DBI, I'm switching to Perl. =) -Chris _______________________________________________ Wtr-general mailing list [email protected] http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/wtr-general
