# Ruby DBAL?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-dbal/110394>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [July 26, 2007, 12:45am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-dbal/110394 "2007-07-26T00:45:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![Daniel\_DeLorme](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/9d8465/32.png) [@Daniel\_DeLorme](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Daniel_DeLorme)\
**Post date:** [July 26, 2007, 12:45am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-dbal/110394/1 "2007-07-26T00:45:51Z")

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I’m trying to write an ORM because it sounds like a fun learning  
experience. The idea is to grab some concepts of Og and some concepts of  
ActiveRecord and mix them with some of my own. But I don’t want to have  
to write my own DB abstraction layer to handle different DB engines.  
Right now I’m using the rails ConnectionAdapters but is there a non-ORM,  
standalone SQL abstraction layer package for ruby?

Daniel

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**Author:** ![Daniel\_DeLorme](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/9d8465/32.png) [@Daniel\_DeLorme](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Daniel_DeLorme)\
**Post date:** [July 26, 2007, 12:56am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-dbal/110394/2 "2007-07-26T00:56:40Z")

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On Thu, 26 Jul 2007, Daniel DeLorme wrote:

> I’m trying to write an ORM because it sounds like a fun learning experience.  
> The idea is to grab some concepts of Og and some concepts of ActiveRecord and  
> mix them with some of my own. But I don’t want to have to write my own DB  
> abstraction layer to handle different DB engines. Right now I’m using the  
> rails ConnectionAdapters but is there a non-ORM, standalone SQL abstraction  
> layer package for ruby?

ruby-dbi

[http://rubyforge.org/projects/ruby-dbi](http://rubyforge.org/projects/ruby-dbi)

Kirk H.