Chapter 9. Database facilities and techniques
This chapter covers
- Using plain text data storage
- Automating contacts in an address book
- Using Ruby’s API for gdbm
- Using relational databases
So far we’ve taken a look at a number of technologies and how to use them with Ruby. This chapter will introduce key database tools available with, and for, Ruby. We’ll take a broad view of what it means for something to be a database. Our working definition will be that a database is a storage unit external to your program where data can be stored. This definition includes highly evolved structures like relational databases, but also includes, potentially, plain-text files.
We’ll also stipulate that the stored data has to have some intelligence about itself. ...
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