Rails - Feb 2006 - Blog of building Agile Web Development w/Rails Depot App using Ackbar/KirbyBase (Chapter 6-7)

Sorry for the long Subject line, but I couldn''t figure out what else to
call it. :-)

Just a quick announcement to tell you that I have worked through 
Chapters 6 and 7 so far of "Agile Web Development with Rails", using 
Ackbar/KirbyBase to develop the Depot app instead of MySQL.  You can 
find my blog about it at:

http://houseonfire.wordpress.com

For those who don''t know, I am the developer of KirbyBase 
(http://netpromi.com/kirbybase_ruby.html),  a small, pure-Ruby DBMS that 
keeps its data in plain-text files and uses Ruby as it''s query
language.

Ackbar (http://rubyforge.org/projects/ackbar/) is an ActiveRecord 
adapter for KirbyBase and was written by Assaph Mehr.

My plan is to work through the complete Depot app (chapters 6-11) using 
Ackbar/KirbyBase.  This should be a fairly good test of how well 
Ackbar/KirbyBase can function as a Rails backend.  Along the way, I am 
blogging about any workarounds/pitfalls someone using 
Rails/Ackbar/KirbyBase might encounter.  At the same time, I hope to 
point out some of the benefits you might realize using Ackbar/KirbyBase.

So far, I''ve been pleasently surprised.  I''ve run into no 
show-stoppers.  Just a few small bugs that Assaph has already fixed in 
CVS head on RubyForge.

Comments/suggestions/advice/corrections would be very much appreciated.

Jamey Cribbs