I'm a little late but here's what I did with window, ROR and MSSQL server http://johnivanoff.blogspot.com/2010/03/new-ruby-on-rails-setup-on-windows-xp.html
cheers, John On May 25, 10:06 pm, pepe <p...@betterrpg.com> wrote: > First of all many thanks to everybody contributing to solve this > problem of mine, especially Nick Sieger, who proposed what ended up > being a pretty easy way to making everything work. > > The original task: I needed to be able to use SQL Server 2005 in a RoR > application in a Windows environment. > > The problem: Accessing SQL Server from RoR was proving a pretty > challenging task for my little and lazy brain. > > The solution: Use JRuby and activerecord-jdbcmssql-adapter, as Nick > suggested. > > Here are the steps: > > 1. Install JRuby. > Go tohttp://www.jruby.org/downloadand select the version you > need (in my case it was "JRuby 1.5.0 Windows Executable > (md5, sha1)"), then run the executable. > 2. Get familiar with how to run JRuby commands > Go tohttp://kenai.com/projects/jruby/pages/GettingStartedand > check out the several commands on that page. The commands > are similar to Ruby's but different enough that it's a good idea > to > check them out. Pay especial attention to 'jruby -S' > 3. Install activerecord-jdbcmssql-adapter > At the command line type: > => jruby -S gem install activerecord-jdbcmssql-adapter > 4. Install rails (this one is only for those who are as thick as I am, > probably nobody but me) > What? Again? I already have the thing installed, don't I? > No, you don't. It took me a moment to realize this but you are > installing rails **under** JRuby. The other version you have runs > under regular Ruby (one of Nick's comments light the bulb in my > head). > => jruby -S gem install rails (in my case: jruby -S gem install > rails -v=2.3.5) > 5. Create your rails application > => jruby -S rails your_app > 6. Run the jdbc generator (as per Nick's instructions). > => jruby script/generate jdbc > 7. Your database.yml should look something like this: > development: > adapter: mssql > database: your_db_name_here > username: your_user_name_here > password: your_password_here > 8. Work on your application > > One little word of caution in case you run into the same problem... > > After I got all the above done I went to the console (jruby script/ > console) and instantiated a table record and tried to save it: > c = Contact.new > c.save! > > I got this error: > ActiveRecord::StatementInvalid: ActiveRecord::ActiveRecordError: > IDENTITY_INSERT could not be turned OFF for table... > > After I played a little bit with the table definition in the DB using > Microsoft SQL Server Mangement Studio Express I realized that the ID > column, although primary key, was not set as IDENTITY column. I > changed that and... nothing! Same error. > > Just for the fun of it I explicitly declared the primary key in my > model: > > class Contact < ActiveRecord::Base > self.primary_key = 'ID' > end > > That did the trick. It seems you have to specify the primary key or > you won't be able to save the records. > > And one last thing. My table has column names such as FirstName and > LastName. ActiveRecord forced me to use case sensitive symbols during > assignments: > I could use :FirstName => ... > I could not use :firstname or :firstName > > This last one might have to do with the DB or table definition but I > have not had time to research it to see if making column names case > insensitive is possible under SQL Server. The weird thing is that > using the Management tool I tried to create a column named 'firstname' > just to check and the tool didn't let me. ??? > > Well, I hope this helps somebody else. > > Thank you to everybody. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-t...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
