Connectivity to Microsoft SQL Server using ADO

Rails
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Based on this page:

http://wiki.rubyonrails.com/rails/pages/HowtoConnectToMicrosoftSQLServer

using this specification

development:
adapter: sqlserver
database: database_name
host: server_name
username: user_name
password: your_pw_here

in database.yml for your SQL Server connection doesn’t work. Some
debugging code reveals that only the password comes through into
sqlserver_adapter.rb when you use it. I’m not sure why.

NOTE - you still have to copy the ADO.rb file per the HOWTO

However, this seems to work:

development:
adapter: sqlserver
database: database_name
host: DBI:ADO:Provider=SQLOLEDB;Data Source=localhost,1692
username: user_name
password: your_pw_here

Platform:
Windows XP Professional
Rails 1.8.2
DBI 0.2
ADO 0.1

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On 3/13/06, Wes G. [email protected] wrote:

username: user_name
password: your_pw_here

in database.yml for your SQL Server connection doesn’t work. Some
debugging code reveals that only the password comes through into
sqlserver_adapter.rb when you use it. I’m not sure why.

NOTE - you still have to copy the ADO.rb file per the HOWTO

Yes, you need to download/install this properly, but once done, the
above works just fine for me, but this is assuming one is not using a
named instance or Windows security.

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I am not using Windows authentication, but it is a named instance. Do
you know why the named instance would matter?

Wes

Corey L. wrote:

On 3/13/06, Wes G. [email protected] wrote:

username: user_name
password: your_pw_here

in database.yml for your SQL Server connection doesn’t work. Some
debugging code reveals that only the password comes through into
sqlserver_adapter.rb when you use it. I’m not sure why.

NOTE - you still have to copy the ADO.rb file per the HOWTO

Yes, you need to download/install this properly, but once done, the
above works just fine for me, but this is assuming one is not using a
named instance or Windows security.