Question

I’ve some huge text files to process and make sense out of the data. Part of the task is to save this data into a database. I want to use Ruby, with postgres or mysql, postgres being the first choice. What libraries should I include? There is no model, its going to be plain SQL statements. How to do this without rails?

Answer 1

For PostgreSQL, you want ruby-pg. It supplies your basic database connection with the ability to query it. The documentation is sparse, but there are plenty of code samples in the source tree. Here’s a fairly straightforward one:

https://bitbucket.org/ged/ruby-pg/src/e4465a9779faed39825213d140df6b1531bb1e68/spec/pg/result_spec.rb?at=default

Edit: The MySQL site lists a few options for connecting to MySQL.

http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/ruby.html