So then, speaking of JDBC-based adapters...Neither Tom nor I have dug
much into the internals of ActiveRecord adapters, and so we're not
sure what would be required to make this work. How much do you
understand of the implementation of these adapters? Enough to start
playing around with something?
I've dug around in the AR internals a bit, as I had to make some personal tweaks to the Oracle adapter to get it working. AR is also built fairly well in that it should be able to stand alone from the rest of Rails. I would think even an initial test that does an ActiveRecord::
Base.establish_connection with a JDBC backend would be a nice initial accomplishment.
My preference would be to start with MySQL since it's the database I currently use for my personal Rails apps. Hopefully after doing one or two adapters a pattern will emerge and the rest won't be so difficult.
/Nick
