From: David Vallner <david@...>
Date: 2006-02-10T07:01:10+09:00
Subject: Re: Start from the start - Ruby or ruby on rails

Hate to spoil a perfectly good sales pitch, but if the app is supposed to be 
in Rails and simple / formulaic enough, it doesn't really matter what the 
underlying query language is.

Is there a usable Rails adapter for KirbyBase? ACID transactions (for DB 
schema changes if nothing else)?

And with the good and bad of it, SQL is -the- standard RDBMS query language, 
so that would restrict KirbyBase to small / personal projects where you're 
sure you'll never change DB backends.

Also, why would someone that already knows SQL choose KirbyBase over SQLite? 
The latter installs very easily too.

David Vallner

PS: No, I'm not trying to flame KirbyBase, or sales pitches. Just if you're 
going to do a sales pitch for whatever you like, make it less mindless and 
put it into context.

Dňa Štvrtok 09 Február 2006 22:18 Alain FELER napísal:
> XML, Yaml, database : before choosing, maybe you would like to have a
> look at Kirbybase : http://www.netpromi.com/files/kirbybaserubymanual.html
> It has many very nice features :
> - no installation (written in ruby) : put kirbybase.rb in
> c:\ruby\lib\ruby\site_ruby and that's all
> - no database language to learn : everything is done with ruby syntax
> - no administration tools required : the data is in plain text files
> - no hundreds of page to read : the complete doc is 77k
> - offers nearly the power of a "real" database system : indexes, lookup
> tables, one-to-many links, multi-fields sort, enough data types (String,
> Integer, Float, Boolean, Time, Date, DateTime, Memo, Blob, and YAML.)
> - fast enough
> - free
> AF