From: Ashok Kumar <ashok.webdev@...>
Date: 2007-03-14T20:31:11+09:00
Subject: Re: using MS Access on linux through ruby on rails

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On 3/14/07, Nathan Smith <nlloyds@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 3/12/07, Ashok Kumar <ashok.webdev@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > hi,
> >
> > i want to access "Microsoft access files(*.mdb)" on linux through ruby
> on
> > rails framework.
> > is it possible?
> > if so how?
> > any examples available?
> > can any one give me some pointers?
> >
> >
> > Ashok
> >
>
> I just saw this today on the Polishing Ruby blog (
> http://blog.zenspider.com/):
> activemdb (http://rubyforge.org/projects/activemdb). From the rubyforge
> project page:
>
> "Lets non-Windows boxes read MS Access (.mdb) files. Uses ActiveRecord-ish
> reflection to parse table and column names. Intended for exploration and
> migration, not production. Requires binaries from the MDB Tools project (
> http://mdbtools.sourceforge.net/)."



Great !
do u have any idea, how to use this.
as a beginner, i am not getting idea to implement this.
will you?

Ashok




Nate
>

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