From: khaines@...
Date: 2006-07-28T04:33:37+09:00
Subject: Re: How would I store data to a server?

On Fri, 28 Jul 2006, Ryan Macy wrote:

> Ok what I am attempting to figure out is; I want to have a gtk windows,
> with said window on startup I want it too connect to a database to
> retrive the user list, clans, and etc. With this data I will sort it out
> on the program display the users clan, members, etc. I need to connect
> to a database on my server but I do not wish to have connection
> passwords and such in the code.

I'm sure people can suggest many ways to get you there.  A quick and easy 
way that occurs to me is to use Drb.

On your server you run a Drb service that provides an API for querying 
that information

Take a look at this tutorial on how to approach something like this:

http://segment7.net/projects/ruby/drb/introduction.html


Kirk Haines