From: Dido Sevilla <dido.sevilla@...>
Date: 2006-03-26T03:08:00+09:00
Subject: Re: does ruby have database/network support built in?

On 3/26/06, brian yahn <yahn15@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Is there
> any support for mysql in ruby?  I know about ruby on rails, but I'm not
> making a web aplication, so I don't think thats what I'm looking for.  I
> figured ruby probably had database support since ruby on rails does.
> Can anyone tell me where I could find out about Ruby's database/network
> support if it has any?

But of course...

http://www.tmtm.org/en/mysql/ruby/

However, you'll probably want to use that only indirectly, with this:

http://ruby-dbi.sourceforge.net/

so that if you ever for whatever reason want to stop using MySQL, you
can shift to something like Oracle, Postgresql, or whatever with
little trouble. ActiveRecord, the component of Rails that provides
database support, is of course available even if you aren't using
Rails itself, but I personally haven't tried to use it independently
of Rails myself. As for networking support, that's certainly available
within Ruby's standard library. Have a look at the net/ stuff in the
ruby-doc.org site for details on the API. There's a thing called
Distributed Ruby that makes remote method calls over a network so
simple as to be almost the same as local method calls.