From: Michael Davis <mdavis@...>
Date: 2004-02-24T05:24:48+09:00
Subject: Re: Calling JDBC from with Ruby

Robert Klemme wrote:

> "Michael Davis" <mdavis@sevasoftware.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
> news:Onq_b.5102$yZ1.243@newsread2.news.pas.earthlink.net...
> 
>>I am comfortable with creating a C module that allows Ruby to access other
> 
> existing libraries.
> 
>>This is the approach I am planning to use for ODBC access.  However, I
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> don't know if it is even
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>>possible to create a Ruby extension using C or Java that would allow me
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> access to JDBC.
> 
> You don't need to do that, DBI has this ability already on Windows.
> 
>     robert
> 

I trust you are referring to DBI's ability to use ODBC in Windows.  I am aware of this and if my requirement were to only to access data using ODBC on Windows, I would strongly consider using DBI.  However, this does not address my need to access data using JDBC in a unix environment.  

Thanks, Michael