From: Ken Kunz <kennethkunz@...>
Date: 2005-08-05T21:56:06+09:00
Subject: Re: Database choices?

Mark,

I have been using the FireRuby bindings for Firebird for several months
now, and I've been quite pleased:
http://rubyforge.org/projects/fireruby/

What I like:
- has a richer, more complete API compared to the older Interbase
bindings
- well documented
- actively developed and supported
- published as a gem

Possible gotchas:
- Limited BLOB support (not an issue for me)
- Not very mature, so API may still be in flux

BTW... I recently posted a Rails Firebird adapter that uses the
FireRuby extension:
http://dev.rubyonrails.com/ticket/1874

Cheers,
Ken