Re: JRuby on Rails

On Wed, 22 Feb 2006, Nick Sieger defenestrated me:
>    On 2/22/06, Thomas E Enebo <[1]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.

  Well I could see going both routes.   The generic one would be
a decent first swipe.  The specific ones seems like minor inheritence to
set up the database specific stuff.  At a minimum, doing the first seems 
like a good intro to making the others.

-Tom

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