From: "LEMONNIER Frédéric" Date: 2002-01-18T07:17:28+09:00 Subject: Re: Is there a way to use Sql server database with ruby? Thank you for your answer, I have installed unixodbc and rubyodbc . I try to test the connection to my sql7 server The syntax is : ruby test.rb DSN [uid] [pwd] but what is exactly DSN ? Magicbob "Morris, Chris" a �crit dans le message news: 99DD35F8BFC4D511A3C500508BEE03A2081714@mail01... > > I'd like to connect my ruby programs to a sql server 7 > > database but i don"t > > know how. I did it with perl by using freetds and i'd like to know if > > there's something similar for ruby > > Check out Ruby/ODBC > [http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/raa-list.rhtml?name=Ruby%2FODBC], works great > for me so far. > > Chris >