From: "Peña, Botp" <botp@...>
Date: 2003-10-27T13:32:05+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] dbi-dbrc 0.3.0

Daniel Berger [mailto:djberg96@yahoo.com] announced:

> Hi all,
> 
> I'm happy to announce dbi-dbrc 0.3.0
> 
> What is it?
> 
> This is a supplement to the dbi module, allowing you
> to avoid hard-coding passwords in your programs that
> make database connections by using a special config
> file.  It's also convenient. :)
> 
> What's new?
> 
> Win32 support has been added, although it is not (yet)
> subject to file permission/attribute restrictions.
> 
> How do you use it?
> 
> require "dbi"
> require "dbi/dbrc"
> 
> db = DBI::DBRC.new("my_db","some_user")
> dbh = DBI.connect(db.dsn,db.user,db.passwd)
> ...
> 
> Win32 users will need the win32-etc package, available
> on the RAA.
> 
> You can find the home page for dbi-dbrc at 
> http://ruby-miscutils.sourceforge.net

Hi Daniel,

Is the password encrypted?

Btw, your package by itself is already very useful. But we have to store
only the encrypted password, since that is a requirement of our corp audit
here ;-)
 
> Enjoy!
> 
> Dan

kind regards -botp