Re: Calling JDBC from with Ruby

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"Michael Davis" <mdavis / sevasoftware.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:AKo_b.4954$yZ1.1140 / newsread2.news.pas.earthlink.net... > Robert Klemme wrote: > > > "Michael Davis" <mdavis / sevasoftware.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag > > news:YWyZb.1830$yZ1.19 / newsread2.news.pas.earthlink.net... > > > >>I am building a web application for a client in Ruby. The application > > > > is > > > >>working but now needs to access data using JDBC. > > > > > > This sounds strange to me. Didn't you mean to say "the application needs > > to access data in a relational database"? In that case DBI is your > > friend. No need for JDBC here. > > > > Regards > > > > robert > > > > No. The data that I need to access may not always be relational and I have been given specific requirements for using both JDBC and ODBC. I explored many possible options for accessing data with my client and they have several very good reasons for these requirements. > > Thanks, Michael I guess, you'll have a hard time convincing Ruby to use JDBC but I've successfully drawn data from an ODBC data source with the windows build of Ruby. (Note: this is not the cygwin build but the MS C++ build) Regards robert