# Ruby on Rails for Non-Relational database

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-on-rails-for-non-relational-database/175258>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [September 10, 2009, 9:29am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-on-rails-for-non-relational-database/175258 "2009-09-10T09:29:07Z")\
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**Author:** ![Pankesh\_P](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/7feea3/32.png) [@Pankesh\_P](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Pankesh_P)\
**Post date:** [September 10, 2009, 9:29am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-on-rails-for-non-relational-database/175258/1 "2009-09-10T09:29:07Z")

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hi ,  
Is it possible to use Non-relatiional Datbase with Ruby on Rails  
for Web app ?  
-Pankesh

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**Author:** ![Pankesh\_P](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/7feea3/32.png) [@Pankesh\_P](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Pankesh_P)\
**Post date:** [September 10, 2009, 9:30am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-on-rails-for-non-relational-database/175258/2 "2009-09-10T09:30:53Z")

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On Sep 10, 7:55 am, Pankesh P. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

> hi ,  
> Is it possible to use Non-relatiional Datbase with Ruby on Rails  
> for Web app ?  
> -Pankesh

Well ActiveRecord won’t support it but that doesn’t stop you from  
using the rest of rails with it (eg I’m working on an app that uses  
couchdb for storage).

Fred

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**Author:** ![Pankesh\_P](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/7feea3/32.png) [@Pankesh\_P](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Pankesh_P)\
**Post date:** [September 10, 2009, 9:39am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-on-rails-for-non-relational-database/175258/3 "2009-09-10T09:39:40Z")

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Of course you can use them. If you are using CouchDB, then there  
exists ActiveCouch  
([GitHub - arunthampi/activecouch: ActiveCouch is a simple, convenient, Ruby-idiomatic wrapper for CouchDB](http://github.com/arunthampi/activecouch/tree/master)) which will give  
you ActiveRecord like interface. If you are planning to use some other  
DB, you can help community like ActiveCouch guys by extracting your  
code and releasing it.

## Thanks, Abhinav

अभिनव  
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