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Hi Guys I am pretty new to Ruby. One of our client is using Firebird as his backend database. I have to create a script which will connect to his database, fetch some data and update few tables in MS-SQL database. Now problem is: i have installed FireRuby, got databaes, changed my database.yml file. I am trying to display all the users in Members table. but i am getting following error:

Hi All, Is anyone successfully using ROR 2.x with Firebird 2.x in a production environment? The support seems to have dwindled. I would greatly appreciate any installation guidelines, comments or tips. What is somewhat confusing is what is required to for ROR to play nicely with firebird. I have come across fireruby, fb_adapter, fb-0.5.9...there does not seem to be cohesive install /

I saw that there''s a patch in the queue (http://dev.rubyonrails.com/ticket/1874) for a Firebird adapter. Just wondering if anyone is using this, the other Firebird adapter, or something else w/ Rails. My main interest is that sometimes Windows is a target platform, and Firebird is stable on Windows, whereas I''ve heard that the Windows version of PostgreSQL isn''t

Hello! I''m new to Ruby and Rails, but have been reading along here, and searched the archives and didn''t see anything addressing some concerns I have with using Rails and Firebird. I prefer Firebird when it is available, and I''m very pleased to see that others have gotten it working with Ruby. I have been trying to use it with Rails, with mixed success.

I am trying to generate some scaffolding using "ruby script/generate scaffold order order". It always fails with the message "uninitialized constant CHARACTER_SET". I have an orders table in a Firebird databse called TARPRILOGISTICS.GDB. The database is in a folder named "database" in my rails app root folder. I tried FireRuby 0.4 and 0.4.1. My config file looks

Hi all, I have played with JRuby on Rails in the past and managed to make it work with Firebird. Although migrations did not work, I managed to do everything manually and it worked. Now, I am working with Ruby on Rails and was wondering if anyone here has managed to get Rails to work with Firebird 2.1.x. If yes, what were the steps? I installed fb and fb_adapter, and I get the following error:

I am trying to validate an integer field called quantity. I don''t know how to chack if it has gone beyond or below the maximum or minimum value allowed by the Firebird RDBMS. I tired adding this code to the validate method in the model: if (quantity > -2147483648) and (quantity < 2147483648) errors.add("quantity", "is out of range (must be between

Rubyonrails application which was working fine with rails 1.1.6, fireruby and firebird 1.5.3 does not work with rails 1.2.1. The error is reproduced below. Could not get over this problem. Any help coming through? Thanks in advance. ActiveRecord::StatementInvalid in TimekeeperadminController#authenticate FireRuby::FireRubyException: Error preparing a SQL statement. Dynamic SQL Error SQL error

There''s a test for activerecord called test_numeric_fields in base_test.rb. here''s the test def test_numeric_fields m = NumericData.new( :bank_balance => 1586.43, :big_bank_balance => BigDecimal("1000234000567.95"), :world_population => 6000000000, :my_house_population => 3 ) assert m.save m1 =

I didn''t mention in the subject that I''m using Firebird because I''m hoping non-Firebird developers will read this since there only seem to be about four people using Rails with Firebird. First what works for me - WinXP/Rails/Apache/FireRuby works great. I''ve also got WinXP/ Rails/Apache/FastCGI working well. When I mix FastCGI and FireRuby I blow up with

Hi to all ... I''m an italian people. I''m developing a proget using Ruby on Rails, with Firebird 2.0 as data base. Actually I''m using this version of GEM: RUBY: 1.8.2 RAILS: 1.1.2 ACTIVE-RECORD: 1.14.2 FIRERUBY: 0.4.1 RUBY-GEMS: 0.8.10 Now I need to upgrade to RUBY: 1.8.4, because I need to use Rmagick for generate bar code. I installed Ruby 1.8.4 but now my

Subject pretty much says it all. I currently have options()$browser set to open help pages in Mozilla Firebird, but it starts a new window each time and I would like a new 'tab' in an existing window. Sorry if this is obvious, but I can't find anything. Kevin Wright

Hi to all, I am trying to use "ruby script/generate scaffold product". I always get the message "uninitialized constant CHARACTER_SET". I have a products table in a Firebird database called depot_development.fdb. Here is my config file : > common: &common > adapter: firebird > host: localhost > username: SYSDBA > password: masterkey >

Hi all, I have a centos 4.2 with apache. I need allow a php site access the firebird DB. How can I do this? -- ===================== Marcus Tulio T. Carvalho Telemacro Sistemas e Servi?os ===================== -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20060227/77897304/attachment-0001.html>

Hi, in my directory: test.exe gds32.dll - from Interbase 6 this works, but if I put GDS32.DLL from Firebird 1.5: test.exe GDS32.DLL the program test.exe has encountered a serious problem and needs to close. any fix to this? Thanks, Angelo

The Action Controler List worked, but if i add one new record, i''m view the message bellow " FireRuby::FireRubyException: Error preparing a SQL statement. Dynamic SQL Error SQL error code = -842 Precision must be from 1 to 18 Wrong numeric type SQL Code = -842 Firebird Code = 335544569 : SELECT CAST(0 AS DECIMAL(0,0)) FROM RDB$DATABASE " I''m apreciate any

I use the firebird db. I have a Users table If in ruby user_controller I use users = User.find(:all) print(users) I view >>nil Can you help me? Thank you Andrea --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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

Hi all, Sorry for another newbie question! I''ve got a legacy firebird database which I wish to use, and thanks to help from this group I''ve used Dr Nic''s Magic Models to get RoR talking to the database. However, I wish to create a new table ("reports") in this database, and so generated the scaffold such that the file "db/migrate/

For anyone testing the Firebird adapter (or interested in doing so), I updated the instructions on the wiki with a simpler, improved test setup. Click "See changes" on the bottom of the page for details on what changed: http://wiki.rubyonrails.com/rails/show/Firebird%20Adapter Also... I hear that some people actually use Windows as a development environment (perhaps due to factors

I'm having trouble with the HTML-based search engine, and I'd be grateful for any advice. I am using Mozilla Firebird 0.7 on Debian 3.0 with R 1.8.0. (I've also had the trouble with Mozilla Firebird 0.6 on Debian 3.0. I also use Mozilla Firebird 0.6 on Windows XP, and I have no trouble with the HTML-based search engine.) When I type help.start() in R, it brings up the proper search