From: Christopher Dicely <cmdicely@...>
Date: 2008-04-17T01:12:32+09:00
Subject: Re: Is there a One True Postgres interface? Is Ruby-postgresmaintained?

On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 7:39 AM, Phillip Gawlowski
<cmdjackryan@googlemail.com> wrote:
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>  Thomas Kellerer wrote:
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>  | The Postgres JDBC driver is 100% Java and definitely does not rely on
>  | any external DLLs or libraries, it speaks the native PG protocol (AFAIK
>  | there is no such thing as a "Java interface"). So why shouldn't this be
>  | possible with Ruby as well?
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>  Because Ruby doesn't really compare to Java in terms of infrastructure
>  and APIs?

While this may be true in some general sense, I don't think its really all that
relevant here. PostgreSQL's protocol is documented and supported over
TCP/IP, and Ruby certainly has TCP/IP support, so there is no reason you
couldn't write a pure Ruby PostgreSQL driver.

>  Long story short: It's not impossible to define a standard API for Ruby,
>  but somebody has to do it yet (don't look at me, C makes me scream).

Ruby has a fairly standard DB API: Ruby-DBI. And there's no reason you
need to use C to write Ruby-DBI database drivers.