"Gavin Sinclair" wrote:
> > The application is working but now needs to access data using JDBC.
> 
> If I may go out on a limb here, I've never heard anything so
> ridiculous.  I mean, that's clients for you, but isn't it sufficient
> that the application should just "access data"?
> 
> Anyway, someone please prove me wrong, but you can't "access JDBC with
> Ruby".  JDBC must be accessed through a JVM, so JRuby might be your
> only hope.

Yes.  JDBC is ODBC for Java and Java only.  I suppose one could call the
ODBC interface for Ruby, RDBC; but thankfully they didn't decide to that
and confuse the issue. ;-)

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J. Lambert