Ruby sql-query good practice

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what is the equivalent in ruby of that PHP code ?

<?
$sql = "select * from mytable";
        $result = mssql_query($sql);
        while($row = mssql_fetch_array($result)){
        $array[] = $row[0];
        }
?>

so far i have :

require 'dbi'
   db = DBI.connect("DBI:ADO:Provider=SQLOLEDB;Data
Source=myserver;Initial Catalog=mydb;User Id=myuser;Password=;")
   sql = db.prepare("select* from mytable")
   sql.execute

   while row=sql.fetch do

   p row
   end

I'm just interested in a good practice to store in an array from an SQL
query.

  sql.finish

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Rcmn 73 wrote:

what is the equivalent in ruby of that PHP code ?

<?
$sql = "select * from mytable";
        $result = mssql_query($sql);
        while($row = mssql_fetch_array($result)){
        $array = $row[0];
        }
?>

so far i have :

require 'dbi'
   db = DBI.connect("DBI:ADO:Provider=SQLOLEDB;Data
Source=myserver;Initial Catalog=mydb;User Id=myuser;Password=;")
   sql = db.prepare("select* from mytable")
   sql.execute

   while row=sql.fetch do

   p row
   end

I'm just interested in a good practice to store in an array from an SQL
query.

  sql.finish

if you just want the first column of all rows:
(you should probably only select that one, but anyway)

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require 'mysql'

class Mysql::Result
   include Enumerable
end

db = Mysql::new("myserver", "myuser", "", "mydb")

array = db.query("SELECT * from mytable").map{|row| row.first}

db.close
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btw: anyone knows why the "include Enumerable" isn't there at
the first place?

cheers

Simon