From: Mark Hahn <mchahn@...>
Date: 2001-12-04T07:27:25+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:27382] Re: Ruby & MS-SQL7


I used DBI and ODBC with Ruby to MSSQL7 in a project and it worked just
fine.

-----Original Message-----
From: Darrin Thompson [mailto:dthompson@characterlink.net]
Sent: Monday, December 03, 2001 10:47 AM
To: ruby-talk ML
Subject: [ruby-talk:27361] Re: Ruby & MS-SQL7


Are you connecting from Linux or Windows. I know a reliable way to get
to MSSQL7 from Linux that is free but too complicated to describe here.
 From Windows I think our company uses DBI and the ODBC driver. The ADO
driver didn't work for us.

Darrin

Armin Roehrl wrote:

>On Friday 30 November 2001 23:59, you wrote:
>
>>Armin Roehrl wrote:
>>
>>>Hi,
>>>
>>>Does anybody have any experience using Ruby & MS-SQL7.
>>>
>>>If possible I'd use ruby-DBI, as the coding is done with MySQL
>>>and then at the customer's site that plane has to fly with MS-SQL7.
>>>Am I right that the only way to get that plane off the ground is using
>>>DBI with ODBC?
>>>
>>In Ruby/DBI 0.0.4 there was a Sybase (FreeTDS - works with MS-SQL) driver
>>for Ruby/DBI but it there was no further development on it.
>>
>>If there would be a FreeTDS library for Ruby, I could write a DBD for
>>it, but I guess there isn't.
>>
>>But what's wrong with ODBC?
>>
>I'll try with ODBC. Thanks,
>	Armin
>
>>Regards,
>>
>>  Michael
>>
>