On 25 Feb 2009, at 16:49, Rick Fiorentino wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
> Is there a way to determine the adapter type, as well as, other
> information on the fly for a database? For example, can you make a
> generic type connection to a database (assuming the db server port
> and/or credentials are correct) and ask the db information about
> itself,
> then based on the response configure the establish_connection
> accordingly? The initial generic connection would not access the
> actual
> data for ROR, but determine the information about the DB for use with
> ROR.
>
> One approach is to attempt to access the DB cycling through the
> available adapter types until you get a response, however, this seems
> clunky at best.
>
You probably could - tools like nmap can probably tell the difference
between mysql running on port x, postgresql running on that same port
etc...
It seems like quite a lot of effort for a onetime setup job though
(unless you''re very focussed on that wow it works straight out of the
box experience)
Fred> Any thoughts are appreciated.
>
> thanks for any advice,
> Rick
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