From: "Gerardo Santana Gómez Garrido" <gerardo.santana@...>
Date: 2007-12-01T08:48:37+09:00
Subject: Re: Creating Databases in Ruby

On 11/30/07, Dimitri Aivaliotis <aglarond@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Nov 29, 2007 3:48 AM, Will Mueller <will.liljon@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >   I was wondering how exactly is the best method for creating
> > databases in Ruby. I mean databases in a sense of small or large
> > quantities of information stored.
>
> I've always liked KirbyBase[1].  From its Rubyforge project page:
>
>     KirbyBase is a small, plain-text, DBMS written in Ruby. It can be
> used either embedded or client/server.
>     It aims to be as "Ruby-ish" as possible. For example, queries are
> specified using Ruby code blocks,
>     rather than SQL strings.

If you like KirbyBase's interface, you may like Sequel too

http://code.google.com/p/ruby-sequel/

which gives you a Ruby-ish interface, but for your RDBMS of choice.
-- 
Gerardo Santana