From: Rich Morin <rdm@...>
Date: 2006-09-22T03:31:14+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby connection to MySql

At 3:13 AM +0900 9/22/06, Patrick Lynch wrote:
> I'm going thru the "PickAxe" book but can find only
> limited information in it regarding how Ruby connects
> to and uses MySql..
>
> Is there any documentation available in regard to this?

As far as I know, Ruby itself has no language support for
MySQL in particular or databases in general.  However, a
number of libraries have been developed to allow Ruby to
interact with these facilities.

The most popular interface, Active Record, is part of the
"Ruby on Rails" effort.  Several books are available on
this topic, including:

  Agile Web Development with Rails
  Rails Recipes
  Ruby for Rails
  Ruby on Rails: Up and Running


General coverage of database usage in Ruby is given in:

  Enterprise Integration with Ruby

This book also covers LDAP, XML, and distributed apps.  I
like the book's approach, which starts with low-level
solutions and works its way up to more abstract interfaces.

This allows the reader to appreciate the problems that the
higher-level solutions are dealing with (and, if it becomes
necessary to revert to a lower-level approach, what options
are available).

-r
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