From: Robert Klemme <bob.news@...>
Date: 2005-02-15T23:05:00+09:00
Subject: Re: Excited n00b


"Mark Carter" <cartermark46@ukmail.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:37e9ktF57ldcjU1@individual.net...
> I jobby out VBA code for a living, although I use python wherever I can.
> I thought I'd try out Ruby to see what all the fuss was about.

Welcome aboard!

> So far, I'm impressed. Here's a little proggy that I knocked out to dump
> the table structure of a database:
>
<snip/>

> OK, it could do with some refactoring, but I was just trying to get
> something working. I think that impresses me about this block stuff is
> that it's a really neat way to hide messy implementation details. ADODB
> has a slightly strange way of iterating over records (the !rs.eof bit);
> but that doesn't matter because it's all hidden away. I just iterate
> over the recordset like it was a normal list.
>
> I'm tempted to stick around to see what other goodies Ruby has in store.

I'm nearly sure you'll stay longer... :-)

> What I'm actually trying to do is read a database, bump the date values
> of some of the fields, create some new records, and put the result into
> a new database. Before I completely re-invent the wheel, is there a ruby
> library that is likely to be of assistance?

Look at the Ruby DBI/DBD implementations.  It typically comes preinstalled
but if you need more, you can look in the RAA http://raa.ruby-lang.org/

There's also other DB handling stuff:
http://raa.ruby-lang.org/cat.rhtml?category_major=Library;category_minor=Database

Kind regards

    robert