This is a compatible rewrite of (by Hans-Georg Eßer) in Ruby.

It is a preprocessor which performs SQL queries on a database and creates LaTeX code for the resulting rows. Ratexdb implements a few improvements, e.g. regexp postprocessing, command-line options, some protection against SQL injection, replacement of LaTeX reserved characters.

ratexdb is no longer being developped; it's replacement is .

See also latexdb nlatexdb.

The author is Robin Höns. The package is Copyright © 2007 Robin Höns.