Chapter 12. Connecting to Databases
I selected MySQL for this chapter because it is available and well-supported on all platforms. Two other databases that you might consider are PostgreSQL and SQLite. Both are fine database systems, and I would encourage you to consider them as options before you settle on MySQL. In all the examples in this chapter, a DBD (database driver) other than mysql could be substituted and used in the same way. At the time of this writing there are 13 available database drivers: ADO, DB2, Frontbase, InterBase, mSQL, MySQL, ODBC, Oracle, OCI8, Pg, Proxy, SQLite, and SQLRelay (see Ruby DBI Documentation, http://ruby-dbi.rubyforge.org/).
Ruby’s MySQL bindings come in either the direct flavor or the DBI (database interface) ...
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