From: Shashank Date <sdate@...>
Date: 2004-08-19T02:50:56+09:00
Subject: Re: [RAILS] Why not a DBIAdapter?


"David Heinemeier Hansson" <david@loudthinking.com>
> I am, however, concerned that doing a generic DBI adapter might
> conflict with the auto-incrementation required by AR. There was talks
> about how it was pretty hard even for ODBC.
                              ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Very true for ODBC as a generic solution. It is not that hard once we
choose to limit ourselves to Database specific solutions. I know, I know
that defeats the whole purpose ... but if you want to do it just to get
an idea of how powerful the framework is, I say don't worry too much
for the genericity.

Dan: is it possible to connect to your Oracle datasource using ODBC?
If it is, I would love to have you try out my ODBC adapter for AR. I
have already tried it on MS-Access and SQL Server 2000 and it works !

-- shanko