From: Brian Candler <B.Candler@...>
Date: 2007-06-02T00:05:17+09:00
Subject: Re: Help with Ruby < - > Oracle Connectivity

On Fri, Jun 01, 2007 at 11:55:29PM +0900, Peter Bailey wrote:
> I'm a bloody genius. What can I say? So, from what you've shown me, it 
> appears that the SQL stuff is inside those parentheses, like above. 
> Right? In SQLPlus, I have to end every instruction with a semi-colon, 
> Perl-like. But, inside Ruby, that doesn't seem to be necessary.

If you google for "ruby dbi tutorial", the first hit is
http://www.kitebird.com/articles/ruby-dbi.html
which should get you started.

But unless you're wedded to working directly at the SQL layer, have a look
at ActiveRecord too. It rocks.

(No offence to the other OO-DB mappings out there, but this is the one which
Rails uses, and so there's lots of good documentation you can buy. In my
opinion, $40 is well spent if it saves you half-an-hour of head scratching)

Brian.