what is Driver & what is Adapter ?
On 6 Oct 2008, at 11:52, Pokkai D. wrote:
what is Driver & what is Adapter ?
Assuming you are talking about database drivers and rails’ connection
adapters:
A driver is something that allows you to talk to the database. Drivers
don’t however all have the same semantics. Similar things may have
different names, the underlying database may be different in the way
certain tasks are accomplished or how certain SQL statements are
written. The connection adapters that are part of Rails smooth over
these differences.
Fred
Frederick C. wrote:
On 6 Oct 2008, at 11:52, Pokkai D. wrote:
what is Driver & what is Adapter ?
Assuming you are talking about database drivers and rails’ connection
adapters:
thats correct
A driver is something that allows you to talk to the database. Drivers
don’t however all have the same semantics. Similar things may have
different names, the underlying database may be different in the way
certain tasks are accomplished or how certain SQL statements are
written.
so from ruby to every database , ruby needed a separate Driver .
The connection adapters that are part of Rails smooth over
these differences.
what does mean ?
what is the main job to this Adapter
is it used to convert database return result(which is in string Object)
to Model Object ?
thanks
On 6 Oct 2008, at 16:19, Srdjan P. wrote:
I think that every adapter includes a driver. So a MySQL adapter for
Rails includes driver information or utilizes a pre-existing driver
for Ruby.
The Rails team do not develop any of the database drivers.
The adapter then uses the raw data brought back from the
database through an SQL statement that’s been generated and makes an
ActiveRecord object specific to the query and populates that object
with the raw data.Frederick, am I right in this?
Not quite. The adapters happen at a lower level. For example, I have a
select query and I want to make it have this limit and that offset.
That’s database dependant and is handled by the adapter. Quoting
rules, mapping of ruby types onto database column types are also
database dependant and are handled by the adaptor.
The adapter also handles stuff like “given this select query, give me
an array of hashes representing the result set”, or “do this insert
and tell me what was the primary key that was generated” and things
like that (building of the ActiveRecord objects in not part of the
adapter code).
If you really want a detailed answer, just crack open something like
mysql_adapter.rb and see what’s in there.
Fred
I think that every adapter includes a driver. So a MySQL adapter for
Rails includes driver information or utilizes a pre-existing driver
for Ruby. The adapter then uses the raw data brought back from the
database through an SQL statement that’s been generated and makes an
ActiveRecord object specific to the query and populates that object
with the raw data.
Frederick, am I right in this?
On Oct 6, 11:02 am, Pokkai D. [email protected]