Re: JRuby on Rails

On 2/22/06, Thomas E Enebo <enebo@xxxxxxx> wrote:

  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.

 
I guess it would depend on whether you wrote an entirely new 'jdbc' AR connection adapter or tried to use JDBC to emulate Ruby libraries such as 'mysql' and 'oci8' etc.

The latter approach would be more work but it would have the bigger payoff of making it easier to port Rails apps to JRuby with fewer modifications.  There's also the side benefit of having those DB access libraries in JRuby for reuse in other apps.

Any thoughts?  At the moment I don't have a strong opinion of which route to take.  I guess the new 'jdbc' AR adapter would be easier to get going.

Cheers,
/Nick