From: David Masover <ninja@...>
Date: 2008-07-23T13:56:41+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby and RDBS

On Tuesday 22 July 2008 23:45:15 Thilanka Marasinghe wrote:

> I'm trying to learn ruby and want to am into database and data mining
> development and am curious if I could combine both together

The Rails community seems to want to avoid writing any SQL at all, and would 
rather work with document databases (things like ThruDB, SimpleDB, and 
BigTable).

That said... Yes, absolutely, depending on the database. Ruby has adapters for 
most major database engines. You're probably going to want to learn some 
SQL...

A quick Google for "ruby database mining" shows something called Ruminate, but 
I can't find any active development lately -- so if you're looking for a 
prebuilt solution, you're probably on your own.