I have never used DBI, but I suspect that you first need to create an ODBC datasource using the ODBC Administrator in the Control Panel (Under Administrative Tools). Jacob, Raymond A Jr wrote: > What URI should I use? > DBI.available_drivers reports > => ["dbi:ODBC:", "dbi:Oracle:","dbi:Proxy:"] > > DBI.data_sources("dbi:ODBC:") reports > => ["dbi:ODBC:Visio Database Samples", "dbi:ODBC:MS Access > Database",...] > > I can not figure how to connect to c:\temp\test.mdb? > > Thank you > raymond -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.