From: Dave Burt <dave@...>
Date: 2005-09-16T23:21:35+09:00
Subject: Re: MS Access

Phlip spat:
> Driving Access through COM, essentially operating its user interface to 
> read and write your data, is remarkably similar to laying your tongue on a 
> baseball bat, pounding a nail through it, and then hitting a home run with 
> it.
>
> A good way to use COM the way it was intended is Ruby->WIN32OLE->ADO->any 
> data. That will come with Jet ("Access") drivers out-of-the-box.

You're right if all you care about is a nicely designed database. I haven't 
seen too many of those; far more common in my experience is a mess of 
junk-ridden tables with some forms that try to make them make some kind of 
sense. It's like using Watir to drive IE because your web app is chock-full 
of javascript and you're not just playing with a nice bit of XHTML.

Although I guess it's still not all that dissimilar to your baseball 
analogy.

Cheers,
Dave