After reading all of my email (I was on vacation for 2 weeks ;-> ) I came
across 7 interested parties in total.

I would be interested in any additional input on this subject and you have
sparked my interest in trying Ruby and Ruby on Rails with DB2 to experience
it for myself.

IBM has made contributions within the Perl and PHP communities with
optimized drivers for DB2 based on our native C libraries (known as DB2
CLI).
DB2 UDB v8.2 has a very nice feature called HADR with Client Reroute that
can provide a primary/standby database server configuration that is highly
available and this technology should work within a Ruby application since
the automatic reroute to the active database server is handled within the C
runtime layer. The transaction performance of DB2 is also a great reason to
consider deploying any application with DB2 instead of another RDBMS (just
some thoughts).

I would like to consider getting more involved in enhancing the DB2 support
with the Ruby community if there is sufficient demand.

Grant Hutchison







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Andrew Stuart wrote:

> Hello Folks,
> 
> A few days ago I invited people to email Grant Hutchison from IBM if they
> have any interest in IBM developing "official" Ruby drivers for DB2.
> 
> Grant says that only two people sent an email expressing interest, and one
> was from IBM!
> 
> I wonder what this means - that Ruby people aren't developing for DB2
> because there aren't enterprise endorsed DB2 drivers, or that DB2 is just
> not as accessible to Ruby developers as MySQL or Postgres.  Or maybe
> something else?
> 
> 
<pregnant pause>  Is DB2 open source?

> Anyway it's a bit of a disappointment because I was hoping to be able to
> develop applications that take advantage of DB2's powerful row level
access
> control security.
> 
> 
If DB2 isn't open source, is this a useful feature that should be in
PostgreSQL or MySQL?

> Are there any Ruby people out there who use DB2?
> 
> 
I think the question is "are there DB2 people who use (or would like to
use -- or who would be allowed to use) Ruby?"

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