From: "Jesús Gabriel y Galán" <jgabrielygalan@...>
Date: 2009-02-23T20:58:22+09:00
Subject: Re: get attributes from database

On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 12:26 PM, Hello Guy <arzu_sanli@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> i have a class Inpatient with his attributes like name, address, etc.
>
> i want to catch the inpatient data from database, how i can do this?
>
> i want add inpatients when i give the name, and so all attributes of
> this
> inpatient should come from database.
>
> i hope i could define my prolem.
>
> how can i implement this with ruby?

What you want is usually called ORM: Object-Relational Mapping, which
is a way to map data from a database into objects in a programming
language. In Ruby there are several implementations, you should check
some of them and choose one that suits your project. The most popular
ones (as perceived by me :-) are ActiveRecord, Sequel and DataMapper.
You can use google to find documentation about those.

Hope this helps,

Jesus.