From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2007-10-25T21:36:26+09:00
Subject: Re: Accessing SQL Server named instance

2007/10/25, gregarican <greg.kujawa@gmail.com>:
> I apologize in advance for posting a Rails question in the general
> Ruby news group, but here goes. Does anyone know of a way I can
> configure my Rails app to access a SQL Server named instance? My
> version of Rails is a couple of years old (ActiveRecord v1.10.0 if
> that means anything). I am using ADO and when I refer to the SQL
> Server named instance as SERVERNAME\INSTANCE the app errors out that
> it cannot connect. The app was previously hosted on anothe server that
> used the default instance. No problems then. I had googled a posting
> on another board where someone had similar issues. But no follow-up as
> to if it was fixable.
>
> Anyone know?

Unfortunately no Rails experience here, but: you did make sure the
port on the DB server is reachable from your Rails machine?

Kind regards

robert