From: Nicholas Van Weerdenburg <vanweerd@...>
Date: 2005-01-06T13:20:40+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby Data Structure Query Abstractions/Patterns

On Thu, 6 Jan 2005 10:10:26 +0900, Sam Roberts <sroberts@uniserve.com> wrote:
> 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
>

This is looking like the most reasonable choice at the moment- though
not the most fun, so I may continue with a Ruby solution for now.

Thanks,
Nick
 
> >
> > 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
> >
> 
> 


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Nicholas Van Weerdenburg