Connecting to an MSSQL database from a Ruby on Rails application running on Ubuntu

Question

I have a situation where I\'m trying to build a web app which takes a total count of records in a table and outputs it to the screen. Sounds simple right...?

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Answer 1

A gem called active-record-sql-adapter lets you connect to an SQL Server db via ActiveRecord. You can do something like

class RemodeDB
  establish_connection(:remote_db) #<=
  self.abstract_class = true # to avoid Rails' no associated model exception
end

then have your classes inherit the connection like so

class Product < RemoteDB
   self.table_name ... 
end

Note that in order to connect to earlier versions of SQL Server (2005 in your case), you would need an earlier version of the gem which may not be compatible with your current version of Rails.