From: David <david@...>
Date: 2010-10-11T01:48:30+09:00
Subject: Re: ODBC app in Ruby - I don't believe it.

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I was going to suggest to the Windows 7 Developer, that using a virtual box
OSE on top Windows 7, with a Linux Guest OS.

Install Ruby and MYSQL on that, happy days.

On 10 October 2010 10:00, Stuart Ellis <stuart@stuartellis.eu> wrote:

>
> > On Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 12:38 AM, Ed Reed <joebananas10@gmail.com> 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
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