From: Todd Benson <caduceass@...>
Date: 2008-09-03T23:10:26+09:00
Subject: Re: dtabase access with Ruby

On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 5:58 AM, Sijo Kg <sijo@maxxion.com> wrote:
> Hi
>    If myb doubt is a stupidity please forgive..I was reading a ruby
> book as part of learning Ruby and I reached heading accessing database
> with Ruby I have installed and running rails project..In the book it
> says two methoda to connect a ruby program to database .
> Ruby/DBI   and
> Ruby/odbc
>   And for the sample program one require "dbi" and other require "odbc"
> I tried both these but getting no file to load? So my doubt is if these
> are the two methods for accessing database from Ruby  how could I access
> database without anyof these two in Rails ?Is rails strategy differnet?
> I did not understand That is why asking Could you please explain with a
> simple code fragment to how a simple ruby program can be connected to
> the database I am using postgres And another doubt is if I install dbi
> will there any conflict with existing rails functionality?
>
> Thanks in advance
> Sijo

You can use ActiveRecord without rails.  Also, a few other ORM
projects are out there, one of them being the Sequel gem.

Todd