From: "Gerardo Santana Gómez Garrido" Date: 2006-01-09T06:55:12+09:00 Subject: Re: You want a Ruby extension? Talk to me, baby 2006/1/8, Gregory Brown : > On 1/8/06, Robert Klemme wrote: > > Gregory Brown wrote: > > > On 1/8/06, Joe Van Dyk wrote: > > >> Hi, > > >> > > >> I've figured that it's probably worth my time to learn how to better > > >> write Ruby extensions (as a way to practice my C). > > >> > > >> Are there any C or C++ libraries out there that someone would > > >> appreciate an open-sourced Ruby extension for? > > >> > > > Improving, expanding, cleaning up and otherwise working on the mysql c > > > binding would certainly be something I'd appreciate. Though I do not > > > know the status of it's development activity... > > > > I'm not sure about MS SQL bindings but IIRC they use ODBC and hence are only > > present on Windows builts. If so, integrating http://www.freetds.org then > > would be a good idea. > > MS SQL uses ODBC or ADO. > There *is* an ODBC for *nix. No clue on it's reliability. If this helps, I work with unixODBC + Ruby ODBC + Informix on Solaris all the time without problems. I wrote an Informix adapter for Rails this way that works fine Talking about extensions, I'll attempt to write the native Informix extension for Ruby. It would be nice to see if someone else find it useful. -- Gerardo Santana "Between individuals, as between nations, respect for the rights of others is peace" - Don Benito Ju�rez http://santanatechnotes.blogspot.com/