On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 10:05 PM, Nikolai Weibull <nikolai.weib...@gmail.com> wrote: > The README states that support for SQL Server in DO is pending for > MRI, but JRuby has, well, support for it. What does that mean? Is it > simply a question of all the hoops you have to go through to get there > for MRI (that is, installing freeTDS and the ODBC bindings)?
No, unfortunately pending means that although parts of it are working, the MRI SQL Server driver is not passing our shared spec suite. Its written in Ruby (as opposed to our other drivers, which are written in C or Java), so it should be fairly straightforward if anyone on the list is interested in submitting patches. The stack (FreeTDS + DBI + DBD + RubyODBC) is brittle and can take a while to get going with. I spent quite a few hours getting it working on Snow Leopard.. although I've documented the process involved... This isn't currently a v. high-priority item to finish, but if there is interest from users on the ML, then please add a note to the ticket (http://datamapper.lighthouseapp.com/projects/20609-datamapper/tickets?q=sql+server+) tracking this issue, so we can prioritise our time. As an aside, it'll be faster and easier in most cases to add support for new relational databases on JRuby, rather than MRI. Java already has a standard database API (JDBC) and we have a shared library (do_jdbc) that does most of the heavy lifting, bridging DO's API and JDBC. Alex -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "DataMapper" group. To post to this group, send email to datamap...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to datamapper+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/datamapper?hl=.
