Hey Ruby, or: How to introduce a DB to a language

A little lightening talk I gave today at the amazing Scottish Ruby Conf about my work on ArangoDB's Ruby Adapter.

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1. RWTH Aachen, Computer Science Student on branch master triAGENS GmbH, Developer moon lum moonbeamlabs by Lucas Dohmen Hey Ruby, or: How to introduce a DB to a lan ua e
2. What is ? •Free and Open Source… •… Document and Graph Store… •… with embedded JavaScript… •… real transactions… •… and an amazin query lan ua e Core Team Member
3. What I Do •The Ruby Adapter •=> Ashikawa •Workin with the embedded JS •=> Graphs, Foxx
4. What I believe in (when it comes to DBs) •I believe there should be a low-level driver •I believe that the DB vendor should offer it •I believe that it should be written with as little opinion as possible
5. Ashikawa •Ruby Gems for Aran oDB •Ashikawa::Core •Ashikawa::AR •DataMapper 2
6. Ashikawa::Core •Low Level Driver for Aran oDB •Abstracts the REST interface of Aran oDB •Basis for the other ems gem install ashikawa-core
7. Opinions •Which Lo er do you use? NullLo er. •Which HTTP Lib do you use? Faraday. •Which JSON Lib do you use? MultiJSON
8. Ashikawa::AR •Implements the Active Record pattern •Inte rates with Rails •Will et some love next week gem install ashikawa-ar
9. Active Record? Really? •Active Record is a bad match for NoSQL •You want to match one composite in the database to multiple objects, not one
10. I‘m bettin on DM2…
11. …but it‘s a slow horse to bet on…
12. …but an amazin one
13. DM2 has Aran oDB Support. Yes. Today.
14. “Can I haz Stickerz?” Yep. Just find me.