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Just wanted to announce that I''ve posted a blog entry summarizing some of the things I learned from my effort to create the Depot app from Agile Web Development with Rails, using Ackbar and KirbyBase, instead of MySQL. You can find it at: http://houseonfire.wordpress.com Jamey

Just wanted to announce that I''m starting a blog about my experiences of building the Depot application from Agile Web Development with Rails, using Ackbar/KirbyBase instead of MySQL. You can find the blog here: http://houseonfire.wordpress.com Jamey Cribbs

...#39;'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 Activ...

...y Cribbs (author of KirbyBase) has run through Active Web Development with Rails, building the Depot sample app on top of Akbar/KirbyBase. A few issues uncovered there were fixed / enhanced in this release. See the CHANGELOG for full details. You can read all about his exercise, starting at http://houseonfire.wordpress.com/2006/02/18/hello-world/. = About Ackbar Ackbar is an adapter for ActiveRecord (the Rails ORM layer) to the KirbyBase pure-ruby plain-text DBMS. Because KirbyBase does not support SQL, joins or transactions, this is not a 100% fit. There are some changes to the ActiveRecord interface...