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    <p>there a few frameworks that allow to access the database without using any sql. ActiveRecord, Datamapper .. and i guess there are some more.</p> <p>I use ActiveRecord, because it is standard in Rails, and fits my needs.</p> <p>You can use a script as the following:</p> <pre><code>require 'active_record' ## configuration: all constants should be configured here # DEFAULT_ENVIRONMENT = 'development' database_type = ARGV[0] if database_type.nil? database_type = DEFAULT_ENVIRONMENT end database_yaml = IO.read('../../config/database.yml') ## define model class Group &lt; ActiveRecord::Base end ## the script! class Script def self.run(env) groups = Group.find(:all, :limit =&gt; 10) #groups = Group.find(:first) xml_string = Array.new xml_string &lt;&lt; '&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?&gt;' xml_string &lt;&lt; "&lt;groups&gt;" groups.each do |group| xml_string &lt;&lt; group.to_xml(:skip_instruct =&gt; true) end xml_string &lt;&lt; "&lt;/groups&gt;" # write to file f = File.open("groups.xml", "w") { |f| f.write(xml_string.join("\n")) } end end databases = YAML::load(database_yaml) ActiveRecord::Base.establish_connection(databases[database_type]) Script.run(database_type) </code></pre> <p>So, what i do is first declare a class Group, which will automatically to a table called "groups". Nothing else needed. Iterate over all groups, and convert to_xml (without the doc-type), and save to file.</p> <p>Pretty straightforward.</p> <p>You do have to specify a database.yml file somewhere to be able to connect to the database.</p> <p>Is this clear?</p>
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