Connecting to MS SQL server from OSX

Rails
1

This has been a long painful day and I am hoping someone can help. I
am trying to get my Rails application running on Mac/Leopard to
connect to a Microsoft SQL server. I have followed the instructions
at
http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/HowtoConnectToMicrosoftSQLServerFromRailsOnOSX.

Everything appears to work until I get to IRB. In other words, I can
use iodbc and tsql with no problem. But when I go into IRB and run
require ‘dbi’, I get the following error:

LoadError: no such file to load – dbi
from /Library/Ruby/Site/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:27:in
gem_original_require' from /Library/Ruby/Site/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:27:in require’
from (irb):1
from :0

According to MacPorts, I have installed
rb-dbi @0.1.1_1+dbd_odbc (active)
rb-odbc @0.9995_0 (active)

What am I missing?

Thanks!
Tom

2

This should help you:

See http://www.napcsweb.com/blog/2007/03/08/15/ to see how I did it. (I
try
to keep this as up-to-date as I can.)

3

I have tried all those sites this week myself, the best solution was
found at the following link:
http://installingcats.com/2007/12/13/mysql-ruby-gem-install-problem-on-mac-os-x-leopard/
once this was finished, I was able to go into IRB and type
require"MySql" and all worked fine.

4

@hank:

MySQL != Microsoft SQL Server.

However, that link is very helpful for getting around the MySQL gem
issues.

5

I know what it is, although I can’t tell you how to fix it.

A gem is specifying that it needs activerecord version 1.15.6. At this
point this requirement is discovered, Rails tries to activate that
gem. However, your setup is already running activerecord version
2.1.0. Rails can’t activate two versions of the same gem, hence the
error.

Generally, this happens when a newer version of a gem is installed. In
this case, for example, I’d expect to see:

/Library/Ruby/Site/1.8/rubygems.rb:142:in `activate’:gem::Exception:
can’t activate activerecord (= 2.1.0, runtime), already activated
activerecord-1.15.6

In that case, the fix that has worked for me is gem cleanup, which
removes older versions of duplicated gems. If you did that, I’m
assuming that activerecord 1.15.6 would be removed. I’m not sure what
that would do, since you clearly have a gem that is trying to activate
1.15.6 instead of the other way 'round.

6

Brian,

Thanks for your post. I followed your tutorial and got the require
‘dbi’ from IRB to work, but when I try to use a brand new rails
application with a database.yml set up with the correct Microsoft SQL
connection information, I get the following error:

/Library/Ruby/Site/1.8/rubygems.rb:142:in `activate’:gem::Exception:
can’t activate activerecord (= 1.15.6, runtime), already activated
activerecord-2.1.0

Anyone have any insight into this?

Thanks,
Tom

7

Rails 2.x dropped native support for SQL Server. Add it back.

sudo gem instal activerecord-sqlserver-adapter --source=

8

sudo gem instal activerecord-sqlserver-adapter --source=
http://www.rubyonrails.org

source needs to be: http://gems.rubyonrails.org in order to instal the
activerecord-sqlserver-adapter.