From: "Aleksi Niemelä" <aleksi.niemela@...>
Date: 2000-09-23T04:45:22+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:5072] RE:  RDBMS interface for Ruby?

> Has anyone written an interface to the more common relational database
> systems? I am thinking of something similar to Perl's DBI + 
> DBD::Oracle.

There's currently no such thing as Perl's DBI and DBDs for different
databases. I would expect this will change in future, but that seems to be
the situation right now.

Anyway, I figured out from your comment:

> I know I can just open a pipe to sqlplus, but that is no better than
> using the Korn shell!

that this extension (?) might be something you're after

  http://hydrogen.ruby-lang.org/en/raa-list.rhtml?name=oracle

RAA is your friend anyway. It's not as comprehensive as CPAN, but big
already :).

  http://hydrogen.ruby-lang.org/en/raa.html

Please check other extensions under Library and Database.

	- Aleksi