From: Julian Leviston <julian@...>
Date: 2005-08-08T11:14:44+09:00
Subject: Re: Any interest in a Ruby source code repository module modeled after DBI?

I'm quite interested in that... it would make building a CMS on Rails  
that much easier, I'd reckon- you could do cool things like  
collaborative websites that are remotely updated n stuff...

AND it'd be quite good for things like a shared address book or  
calendar that is web-accessible but maintains persistence on a users'  
machine. (Think a bunch of reps on the road with their laptops - need  
contacts... then need to check in any changes they've made to the  
contacts database, etc.).

Cool!

On 08/08/2005, at 2:46 AM, ChrisO wrote:

> I posted this in the Perl c.l.p.misc and c.l.p.modules newsgroups,  
> and while it's a long shot I would be able to port this to Ruby if  
> there were any interest, I could certainly be tempted to do so  
> since I have more than a passing fancy for Ruby (just little time  
> and opporunity to use it).
>
> But if no one in the Perl world wants this and the Ruby world is  
> receptive to it, maybe I would port this to Ruby.
>
> It's a source code repository module modeled after Perl's DBI (from  
> which Ruby's DBI is modeled it seems).  It allows one to access  
> source code repositories (VSS, CVS, Subversion, PVCS, MKS, etc.)  
> through a consistent interface (think about it, databases add,  
> modify, update and delete records -- hence DBI; why not checkin,  
> checkout, label, add, etc. files in an underlying SCR in the same  
> way?) and even allows one to extend the behavior of any or all  
> underlying SCRs in a consistent manner.
>
> Details here:
>
> http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.perl.misc/browse_frm/ 
> thread/a4b54460936b1fd2/c74f526490a8385f?tvc=1&hl=en#c74f526490a8385f
>
> Let me know if there is any interest in the Ruby world for this.  
> Contact details in the URL above.
>
> -ceo
>
>