hey there folks, i have a bit of a sitch here and i would love some help/input on it. i''ve inherited a horrible asp/mssql app that i''m re-writting using rails, but unfortunately i have to keep the asp version up and running. in order to do so i''ve had to write some admin functions, which i''ve done in rails. because the mssql schema wasn''t written very well i''ve had to override the table and primary keys for active record. my ''user.rb'' file looks like this. class User < ActiveRecord::Base set_table_name "users" set_primary_key "user_id" end i''m not having any problems reading from the database (sql server 2000), but when i try to update something i get the following error: ActiveRecord::StatementInvalid: DBI::DatabaseError: Execute OLE error code:80004005 in Microsoft OLE DB Provider for SQL Server Cannot create new connection because in manual or distributed transaction mode. HRESULT error code:0x80020009 Exception occurred.: SELECT @@ROWCOUNT AS AffectedRows: UPDATE users SET [sb_username] = '''', [hl_perclick_replenish] = NULL, [fname] = ''Mark'', [ccExpYear] = NULL, [nameoncard] = '''', [hl_perclick_method] = NULL, [ccType] = NULL, [hl_perclick_charged_date] = NULL, [where_heard_code] = NULL, [deleted] = 0, [cookie_expires] = NULL, [bill_state] = NULL, [userTyp] = 1, [cookie_id] = NULL, [phone] = NULL, [bill_city] = '''', [referer] = ''http://www.foo.com/'', [rank_elig] = NULL, [hl_perclick_budget] = NULL, [address2] = '''', [browser] = ''Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060111 Firefox/1.5.0.1'', [bio] = NULL, [login_name] = ''foo'', [lname] = ''bar'', [hl_perclick_charged] = NULL, [hl_active] = 0, [zip] = '''', [address1] = '''', [modDT] = NULL, [country] = NULL, [province] = '''', [password] = ''password'', [ccNum] = '''', [hearabout] = ''Foo Bar'', [last_logon] = NULL, [site] = ''hk'', [creatDT] = ''2006-03-08 11:48:09'', [ccExpMonth] = NULL, [email] = ''foo@foobar.com'' WHERE user_id = 10560.0 does anybody have any ideas how i can fix this?? please please please help. thanks. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.