Setting up Rails to work with sqlserver

Question

Ok I followed the steps for setting up ruby and rails on my Vista machine and I am having a problem connecting to the database.

Contents of database.yml

Answer 1

I used and ODBC data source and the SQL Server adapter on Windows Server 2008 against SQL Server 2000 running on a remote instance.

Install SQL Server Adapter

gem.bat install activerecord-sqlserver-adapter
  Successfully installed deprecated-2.0.1
  Successfully installed dbi-0.4.1
  Successfully installed dbd-odbc-0.2.4
  Successfully installed activerecord-sqlserver-adapter-2.2.22
  4 gems installed

Create an ODBC datasource

• Type: SQL Server
• Name: rails_development
• Description: rails_development
• Server: SERVER
• SQL Authentication (sa/12345)
• Default Database: DATABASE

Setup database.yml

development:
    adapter: sqlserver
    mode: odbc
    dsn: rails_development
    username: sa
    password: 12345

YMMV

A couple of helpful links:

• http://rubyrailsandwindows.blogspot.com/2008/03/rails-2-and-sql-server-2008-on-windows_24.html
• http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/HowToUseLegacySchemas