From: Peter Bailey <pbailey@...>
Date: 2007-06-02T00:35:35+09:00
Subject: Re: Help with Ruby < - > Oracle Connectivity

Brian Candler wrote:
> 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.


Thanks, Brian. Yes, that Oracle doc. you pointed me to looks pretty 
in-depth. Regarding Active Record, yes, I've certainly read that it 
rocks, mainly as part of Rails. Can it be used in a non-Rails way, too? 
I'm perfectly fine with shelling out some bucks for a good book.

Thanks again,
Peter


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