# Dbi support

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/dbi-support/152585>\
**Category:** IronRuby\
**Created:** [November 5, 2008, 11:20am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/dbi-support/152585 "2008-11-05T11:20:03Z")\
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**Author:** ![barby](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/c57346/32.png) [@barby](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/barby)\
**Post date:** [November 5, 2008, 11:20am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/dbi-support/152585/1 "2008-11-05T11:20:03Z")

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Hi,

I have been discussing integrating db support for rails with Andrew  
Peters.  
We think the best way forward is to implement a DBI layer for ironruby.

Now the question is how come DBI isn’t in the list of libraries for  
IronRuby? Is there a particular reason for that? Most of the project is  
written in ruby so that should just work provided we implement a correct  
dbi  
driver for [ado.net](http://ado.net).

## We’ll open a project on github later today where we can store our progress on getting a dbi layer going for the .NET providers. if there are people that want to pitch in … drop us a line.

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