From: Cristi BALAN <mental@...>
Date: 2004-07-03T23:33:21+09:00
Subject: Re: Status of Interbase/Firebird interface

On Sat, 3 Jul 2004 01:47:46 +0900, Peter Jacobi <peter_jacobi@gmx.net> wrote:
> Can someone please clarify the situatiuon regarding
> the interface to the Interbase database:
> 
> A) Which is the current version?
> 
> - On ruby-lang.org, there is rather old v0.03
> http://raa.ruby-lang.org/list.rhtml?name=interbase
> 
> - I've found a site claiming to have a new v0.05
> http://www.rowlandresearch.com/ruby/
> 
> B) Does it work with Firebird 1.5?
> 
> C) Does it support all/some character sets supported by Firebird?
> 
> Regards,
> Peter Jacobi
> 

Searching for ruby firebird sql on google brought up this page:
http://www1.uk.freebsd.org/ports/ruby.html

All fb related listed packages require fb1.5, so you should be ok. I
haven't tried any of them since i'm barely starting on ruby so please
post back with results.

Cristi BALAN