From: Logan Capaldo <logancapaldo@...>
Date: 2006-02-10T07:26:25+09:00
Subject: Re: Start from the start - Ruby or ruby on rails


On Feb 9, 2006, at 5:01 PM, David Vallner wrote:

> 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)?
>

Well if he's considering not using Rails at all it doesn't matter if  
there's an ActiveRecord adapter for it (although I've written an AR  
ripoff for KB, there's an Og adater for it, and I know someone is  
working on a ActiveRecord adapter for KB). I don't believe KB is  
ACID, although I could be wrong

> 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.
>

Not true, KirbyBases' format is easily parseable and editable by hand  
as well. It also accessible from Python.

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

Well kirbybase is precisely 1 file of ruby sourcecode. Doesn't get  
much easier than that, especially if you need to deploy elsewhere.

> 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.