PostgreSQL 9.1 introduced Foreign Data Wrappers, as an implementation of SQL/MED foreign tables, to provide transparent access to external data. Restricted to being written in C, writing FDWs can be a hard task.

In this talk we will learn just enough of mruby's (the ISO-compliant version of Ruby) internals to understand how one can embed mruby in an external program (like PostgreSQL), and start writing Foreign Data Wrappers in Ruby.

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Franck Verrot
Franck Verrot
@franckverrot
Franck is a software engineer. He specializes in Ruby and JavaScript, with a focus on performance.