From: Chad Perrin <perrin@...>
Date: 2007-10-18T00:37:07+09:00
Subject: Re: recommendations for working with PostgreSQL

On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 11:21:15AM +0900, Ben Bleything wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 17, 2007, Chad Perrin wrote:
> > I have need to work with PostgreSQL via Ruby.  What gems/modules do you
> > recommend?  Are there any quickstart-type howtos online to which you
> > might direct me?
> 
> If you're looking for an ORM, there is of course ActiveRecord, and
> someone else already offered up Og.

I'm not necessarily looking for ORM, though now that I think about it I
can't help but wonder if every single programmatic interface between Ruby
and a relational database might qualify in some manner as ORM (since
"everything is an object" in Ruby).  In the Perl world, I'd tend to use
DBI for all things database-y, and was wondering what the preferred
approach would be in the Ruby world especially in the case of PostgreSQL.


> 
> As far as the driver goes, the ruby-postgres gem seems to be the way to
> go.

Thanks for confirming that.

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