Hi All, New version of IBM_DB, the Rails Adapter/Driver for IBM DataServers, is now available. This release includes various updates and provides support for Rails-2.1.0. The gem is available for download at http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=2361 . For more details, check the home page of the project at http://rubyforge.org/projects/rubyibm/ . With this gem you can access IBM DataServers in Ruby and Ruby on Rails application. One can get started up with IBM_DB gem using IBM DB2 Express-C which is a no-charge community edition of the DB2 data server available for download at http://www-306.ibm.com/software/data/db2/express/download.html . For more information on DB2 Express-C edition visit http://www-306.ibm.com/software/data/db2/express/?S_TACT=none&S_CMP=none Thanks and regards Praveen Devarao IBM Opensource Technologies India Software Labs Bangalore