If anyone is willing to be a proverbial guinea pig - my firebird adapter has been submitted as a ticket to Rails. It can be found here http://dev.rubyonrails.com/ticket/1418 It does require a modified ruby-interbase driver located here http://rubyforge.org/projects/redbird I hope it isn''t inappropriate to post that patches exist but I figured that at least some people might be interested in trying it out. Nothing really special to run it - it should fit in like any other adapter. Thanks to other adapter writers whom I either borrowed from or whos work I looked very very closely to get my head wrapped around issues at key points. Also thanks to Kazuhiro Yoshida for the starting point of the adapter. Good luck to any takers :) John W Higgins wishdev-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org