From: kranthi reddy Date: 2008-05-07T21:34:05+09:00 Subject: Re: Code for connecting to SQL Server? ------=_Part_22606_1975672.1210163644641 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline The code what I wrote above helps u to connect to the sql server by modifing it a lil require 'mysql' mysql = Mysql.init() mysql.connect('localhost','USERNAME','PASSWORD') mysql.select_db(' DATABASE NAME') result = [] result= mysql.query("SELECT name FROM users;") result.each do |x| puts x.name end from the above when u run ur ruby file u can see the result as list of users in the data base table called users . name is the column in the users table. hopefully this should work You can alwyas change the database type from mysql/postgresql/sqlite3/sql by modifing in the correct place form the above code cheers, kranthi. On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 5:53 PM, Raveendran Jazzez wrote: > Hi Anukul, > > Try this. I am working windows here. > > TRY.rb > > *************************************************************** > =begin > OS : Windows here > Ruby : 1.8.6 > DB :Mysql > Gem :> gem install mysql > =end > > require "mysql" > #require mysql gem > connection = Mysql.connect("localhost", "root", "", "cdcol") > #localhost = hostname > #root = username of mysql DB > #""=password of mysql DB > #cdcol = DB name > output = connection.query("SELECT * FROM cds;") > #cds = table name > output.each do |x| > puts x.inspect > end > > *************************************************************** > > Regards, > P.Raveendran > Railsfactory > http://raveendran.wordpress.com > -- > Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. > > ------=_Part_22606_1975672.1210163644641--