[Seaside] accessing a database

[Avi Bryant]

On Mon, 22 Apr 2002, Kamil Kukura wrote:

> Yea I was thinking about that. JDBC is quite nice, but it lives only
> with that big fat toad called Java. I am examining the combination of
> Ruby + DBI/DBD + SOAP.

I imagine you'll find SOAP too slow; my initial JDBC bridge used XML-RPC
but the performance was pretty bad for large result sets, so I switched to
a simple binary protocol.  But, yeah, Ruby-DBI is a nice way to go
(hmmm... random thoughts of producing a Ruby Plugin for Squeak...)