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September 5, 2008

Pat Eyler
pate
On Ruby
» New Improved MySQL library

MySQLPlus is a new, non-blocking MySQL driver for Ruby 1.8 and 1.9 (anyone know if it will run on Rubinius?) from eSpace, the folks who created NeverBlock. (They also talk about NeverBlockPG, a postgreSQL driver, but it seems to have been deleted.) To quote eSpace's announcement: [MySQLPlus does] IO operations concurrently and in a transparent manner, thanks to NeverBlock. An interesting side

by pate at 8:59 AM under concurrency , datamapper , rubinius , ruby , sequel
January 10, 2008

Pat Eyler
pate
On Ruby
» Sequel Interview with Sharon Rosner

With the recent release of Sequel, I took some time to interview Sharon Rosner about it. Sequel is a really cool project, and uses some Ruby tools in novel ways. Read on and find out more. There are already several ORMs out there. Why write another one? Sharon I wrote Sequel mainly because I tried ActiveRecord and it really didn’t fit what I wanted to do. The first thing that frustrated

by pate at 9:00 AM under interview , ruby , sequel