From: Jamis Buck <jgb3@...>
Date: 2004-09-10T06:14:27+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] SQLite/Ruby 2.0.0 BETA

Ara.T.Howard@noaa.gov wrote:
> On Fri, 10 Sep 2004, Jamis Buck wrote:
> 
>> SQLite/Ruby is an interface for Ruby into the SQLite database engine. It
>> is only for SQLite version 2.x -- it does not (yet) support 3.x.
> 
> 
>   you are an animal jamis!

_Homo sapiens_, to be precise. ;)

>> Support for Ara's "arrayfields" module remains implicit. If you require
>> the arrayfields module before doing a query, then the rows that returned
>> may be indexed by column name (like a hash) or iterated through by index
>> (like an array).
> 
> 
>   thanks very much!  for those of you wondering the sole intrusion into 
> jamis'
>   code is a check for a 'field=' method.  eg. you could implement your own
>   Array#fields= method and not use arrayfields.

Actually, I do a check to see if 'fields=' is already defined (by 
arrayfields, for example), and if is hasn't been, I define it. That way 
the interface is consistent, whether you're using arrayfields or not. 
Pretty similar to what I did for the last version.

> 
>> Lastly: some of you may be wondering why I still bother with the older 
>> 2.x
>> interface for SQLite, given that the 3.x interface is almost out of beta.
>> Three reasons: one, I'm familiar with it. Two, there are still alot  of
>> people that use 2.x databases. Three, a Ruby interface for SQLite3 is
>> forthcoming--watch this space!
> 
> 
>   i subscribe to the sqlite mailing list and read it often.  3 is 
> definitely
>   not ready for production yet.

Good to know. I'll hold of a bit longer, then. :) It's not like I 
haven't got enough to do, after all!

> 
> kind regards.
> 
> -a

- Jamis

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Jamis Buck
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