From: Josh Cheek Date: 2010-09-14T07:09:32+09:00 Subject: Re: XML Driver for ActiveRecord? --001485f99c8002d7c204902b59f4 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 11:34 AM, Gene Angelo wrote: > Anyone know if there is any xml driver built in to the Ruby library that > can be used with ActiveRecord? I do not want to have to install anything > other than Ruby, but, I want to use ActiveRecord. > -- > Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. > > I don't think there is, because AR3 uses arel, and if you look at arel's readme, it has XML in long term goals. "For the moment, Arel uses ActiveRecord's connection adapters to connect to the various engines, connection pooling, perform quoting, and do type conversion. On the horizon is the use of DataObjects instead. The long term goal, following both LINQ and DataMapper, is to have Arel adapt to engines beyond RDBMS, including XML, IMAP, YAML, etc." --http://github.com/rails/arel --001485f99c8002d7c204902b59f4--