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...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 (see below), but it may still be useful in some cases. = URIs Ackbar: http://ackbar.rubyforge.org KirbyBase: http://www.netpromi.com/kirbybase_ruby.html Rails: http://www.rubyonrails.com Pimki: http://pimki.rubyforge.org = Goals Ackbar''s project goals, in order of importance, are: 1. Support Pimki with a pure-ruby, cross-platform hassle-less install DBMS 2. An exercise for me to learn ActiveRecord inside out 3. Su...

...ked 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 compl...

Hi, I''ve been playing around with using DBI instead of ActiveRecord ''cause I just love to beat myself up! ;) Is this an okay way to do this, or is there any other more creative ways? require ''dbi'' module MyApp:Models class DB def self.dbh DBI.connect(''DBI:Mysql:dbname'', ''username'',

...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 (see below), but it may still be useful in some cases. = URIs Ackbar: http://ackbar.rubyforge.org KirbyBase: http://www.netpromi.com/kirbybase_ruby.html Rails: http://www.rubyonrails.com Pimki: http://pimki.rubyforge.org = Goals Ackbar''s project goals, in order of importance, are: 1. Support Pimki with a pure-ruby, cross-platform hassle-less install DBMS 2. An exercise for me to learn ActiveRecord inside out 3. Su...

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