From: "Bartosz Dziewoński" <matma.rex@...>
Date: 2012-05-07T03:13:47+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby scripting?

2012/5/6 cristian d. <lists@ruby-forum.com>:
> But...i have some questions...
>
> - What kind of databases support Ruby (without plugins or frameworks) ?

Ruby, as in, in the standard library? None, as far as I know. But
there are gems available for every major one (MySQL, PostreSQL,
SQLite, ...).


> - Its better to use a framework ? in php not often i used a
> framework...last year i started using code-igniter.... but I felt that
> it offered nothing i could not do. Is RoR a better way to develop things
> ?
>  I know that in huge teams...the frameworks make the difference in time.

I assume you're talking about websites. Ruby is quite unlike PHP in
this aspect, and developing without *some* kind of framework is pretty
tough (it's tough to even connect Ruby to Apache in the way you can do
with PHP, there are no WWW-specific functions like setcookie() or
header() in PHP in standard library).

You don't need RoR, though. There exist a few  easy to use,
lightweight frameworks - I'd recommend looking into Sinatra or
Camping.


-- Matma Rex