More ActiveRecord Information
Supporting More Databases
A number of folks have asked about support for database X. We want to support all possible databases, of course, and JDBC gives us a huge head start on that. Many databases will only need a bit of tweaking to support all the basic CRUD operations. The additional work...small though it may be...is implementing the schema-manipulating methods of ActiveRecord. Here's a complete list...if you can provide examples for each operation, it would speed our supporting them:
Avoiding Modifying active_record.rb
There's now a thread going on the Rails core mailing list and a bug to address the issue of adding adapters to Rails. Hopefully one of two things will come out of this:
A number of folks have asked about support for database X. We want to support all possible databases, of course, and JDBC gives us a huge head start on that. Many databases will only need a bit of tweaking to support all the basic CRUD operations. The additional work...small though it may be...is implementing the schema-manipulating methods of ActiveRecord. Here's a complete list...if you can provide examples for each operation, it would speed our supporting them:
- add_column
- add_index
- change_column
- change_column_default
- columns
- create_table
- drop_table
- initialize_schema_information
- native_database_types
- remove_column
- remove_index
- rename_column
- rename_table
- structure_dump
- table_alias_for
- table_alias_length
Avoiding Modifying active_record.rb
There's now a thread going on the Rails core mailing list and a bug to address the issue of adding adapters to Rails. Hopefully one of two things will come out of this:
- "jdbc" will be added to the list of adapters available in core Rails
- a mechanism will be added (or fixed) to allow adding to the list of adapters from outside the core source
Written on September 4, 2006