From: Jeff Davis Date: 2008-04-17T03:14:38+09:00 Subject: Re: Is there a One True Postgres interface? Is Ruby-postgresmaintained? On Wed, 2008-04-16 at 23:39 +0900, Phillip Gawlowski wrote: > However, since Ruby has no ready-made API for hooking up DB connectors > and all that stuff, the job has be done over and over again, for each DB > Ruby shall support. Huh? Each RDBMS uses a different wire protocol, and something needs to speak that wire protocol. If you don't use the C or Java libraries which the RDBMS provides, it needs to be implemented. Having a "ready-made API" doesn't avoid having to implement the wire protocol. Regards, Jeff Davis