From: Robert Klemme <bob.news@...>
Date: 2004-02-24T21:39:49+09:00
Subject: Re: Calling JDBC from with Ruby


"Michael Davis" <mdavis@sevasoftware.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:5ht_b.5394$yZ1.2738@newsread2.news.pas.earthlink.net...
> Robert Klemme wrote:
>
> > "Michael Davis" <mdavis@sevasoftware.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
> > news:Onq_b.5102$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
> >
> > don't know if it is even
> >
> >>possible to create a Ruby extension using C or Java that would allow
me
> >
> > 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

Yeah, just wanted to make sure that you save yourself time with the ODBC
issue.

Kind regards

    robert