From: Stuart Ellis Date: 2010-10-10T18:00:37+09:00 Subject: Re: ODBC app in Ruby - I don't believe it. > On Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 12:38 AM, Ed Reed wrote: >> Phillip Gawlowski wrote: >> >>> Postgres, Oracle, DB2, MySQL, Informix, SAP ERP. >> >> There's no need to be a smart ass, you knew exactly what I was talking >> about. >> >> From their own websites... > [snip list o'vendors] > > You should also check the programming language bindings these vendors > supply. You'll find that Ruby is lacking in pretty much all of them > (Oracle provided a package for Ruby, but I don't think it's still > supported; it's hard to find, anyway), leaving it to the Ruby > community to provide support. And since the Ruby community is > predominantly *NIX oriented, you can't expect Windows support > automatically. FWIW, this is one of the reasons that I recently switched to using JRuby as my default Ruby implementation - it lets you use the standard JDBC drivers from proprietary database vendors with a Ruby database library like Sequel or Active Record. Setup is painless and JRuby has excellent support for Windows. I'm now a big fan. --- Stuart Ellis stuart@stuartellis.eu