From: Sam Roberts <sroberts@...>
Date: 2005-01-06T10:10:26+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby Data Structure Query Abstractions/Patterns

Quoteing vanweerd@gmail.com, on Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 03:26:22AM +0900:
> Hi all,
> 
> I've written a small ruby application that uses YAML and the
> associated hash/array Ruby structure.

> I am now looking to do some query-like actions on the basic ruby data
> structure. I'm wondering if there are any packages of
> query-abstractions that make sense for Ruby in a generalized sort-of
> way. E.g. XPath and XQuery for XML, SQL for RDMS, etc.

This is why you might want to consider XML... then you can just USE
XPath.

Sam

> 
> Currently I've written my structure-parsing code with a few of my
> cases, and I'm starting to refactor with blocks and lambdas in order
> to keep duplication low and offer an easily configurable higher-level
> of abstraction. Now the code is starting to pressure me to create a
> simple query language. Maybe I should go to a ruby db or sqlite, but I
> expect I ultimately only need the most basic functionality.
> 
> Any suggestions or recommendations?
> 
> Thanks,
> Nick
> -- 
> Nicholas Van Weerdenburg
>