You'd have more luck asking this question on the Rails mailing list:

http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails

Tom

* On Feb 13 23:13, zachary.zolton / gmail.com (ruby-talk / ruby-lang.org) wrote:
> I work at a .NET shop, but I enjoy learning Ruby.  So, I wanna
> prototype some of our company's screens using Rails (and hopefullly
> AJAX).  One thing I'm not sure about, since I'm a noob, is whether
> ActiveRecord will get along with our database...