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Using ActiveRecord to connect to Sybase Adaptive Server Anywhere on Windows

Posted by Rahoul Baruah on December 21st, 2009 under General, Ruby on Rails and Software Development Tags: , , , ,  •  Comments Off

Just don’t ask why I know this. Please. It’s making me cry.
Install Ruby using the One Click Installer.
Install the ODBC module (by copying the SO files into the c:\Ruby\1.8\i386-mingw32 folder).
Install the ActiveRecord ODBC adapter (gem install activerecord-odbc-adapter).
Edit C:\Ruby\lib\ruby\gems\1.8\gems\activerecord-odbc-adapter-2.0\ lib\active_record\connection_adapters\odbc_adapter.rb – look for line 1588.
Change the line from elsif dbmsName =~ /SQLAnywhere/i [...]