Vitor Rodrigues » ruby http://www.vitorrodrigues.com/blog Sat, 26 Sep 2009 08:24:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 DB2 on Rails update http://www.vitorrodrigues.com/blog/2007/10/17/db2-on-rails-update/ http://www.vitorrodrigues.com/blog/2007/10/17/db2-on-rails-update/#comments Wed, 17 Oct 2007 20:45:35 +0000 vitor http://www.vitorrodrigues.com/blog/2007/10/17/db2-on-rails-update/ I’m back to fiddling around with my Ruby on Rails experiments(1)(2). I was able to create a very useful 2-way mapping between Ruby objects and xml data stored in DB2 pureXML. Basically, trying to replicate some of ActiveRecord’s functionality but for XML data. I still find it odd, though, that both ROXML and xml-mapping haven’t had much activity as of late. I’m wondering if there is any new OXM library around that I don’t know of.

Also on the same topic:

  • the main DB2 on Rails website is up and running again, with a revamped design and now using wordpress instead of typo.
  • a new version of the ibm_db driver was also released, containing several bugfixes. Update it through gems (gem update ibm_db) or from here: http://rubyforge.org/projects/rubyibm/ 
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I’ve been playing with Ruby and XML lately, and one of the key features I need to use is XML mapping from XML to Ruby objects and vice versa. However, both ROXML and XML::Mapping do not seem to be very active at the moment. Both forums contain un-replied questions  several months old, and I can’t find any examples that are not a couple of years old.

Is there any XML Mapping library for Ruby that is currently active(*)? XML::Mapping was serving me good enough, until the moment that I needed some of the documented features and found that they are not supported in the current release :-(

 (*) by active I don’t mean it needs to be in exclusively in code development, but at least with some recent activity in forums, documentation, examples, etc..

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"The TIOBE Programming Community index gives an indication of the popularity of programming
languages. The index is updated once a month. The ratings are based on the world-wide availability of
skilled engineers, courses and third party vendors. The popular search engines Google, MSN, and Yahoo!
are used to calculate the ratings. Observe that the TIOBE index is not about the best programming
language or the language in which most lines of code have been written."

Java is still the most popular language, with C and C++ in the next positions. I found curious the fact that Visual Basic is the 4th most popular porgramming language, ahead of PHP and some other very popular languages like Perl, Javascript and Python. 

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