Re: JRuby on Rails

On Wed, 22 Feb 2006, Nick Sieger defenestrated me:
> 
>      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.

  Actually, I did look at this about six months ago and a JDBC active record
did not look like it would be tough to do.  Mostly just adapting JDBC output
to the format active record wants.  I did not see any technical hurdles.

-Tom

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