From: Brian Candler <B.Candler@...>
Date: 2007-03-27T04:04:50+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby DBI

On Tue, Mar 27, 2007 at 03:50:10AM +0900, Starke wrote:
> On Mar 26, 1:14 pm, Brian Candler <B.Cand...@pobox.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 11:30:05PM +0900, Starke wrote:
> > > I am trying to create a reporting system via rails and iSeries DB2.  I
> > > have ruby retrieve records with Ruby DBI.  Is there a way to get this
> > > working inside rails?
> >
> > Yes.
> 
> I thought so to, but I guess Im not setting up rails correctly to use
> DBI... im just guessing but I tried to setup my database.yml file as
> 
> development:
>   adapter: DBI
>   dsn: a2401p6
>   username: STARTCA
>   password: STARTCA
> 
> But it bombs.  I really cant find any documenation on using DBI within
> rails...

Ah, I see what you mean. database.yml is for ActiveRecord. Those values are
passed to ActiveRecord::Base.establish_connection or whatever.

If you want to use DBI, I think you'll have to open the DBI connection
yourself.

Regards,

Brian.