IBM Article: DB2 on Rails

Rails
1

I often forward IBM DeveloperWorks articles about RoR to this list.
This is a new well-written ‘Intermediate’ article using DB2 with Rails:

Hope this helps.
Cheers
Mohit.

2

Thanks for the link, Mohit. Very interesting.

Best regards,
Bill

3

Mohit,

Thanks for the link.

You’ll find more on using DB2 with Rails in my blog -

http://blogs.ittoolbox.com/database/geek

I also gave a presentation entitled “DB2 on Rails” at the recent IDUG
(International DB2 Users Group) in San Jose, which you can retrieve from

http://www.scotdb.com/downloads.html

HTH

Phil

–
Philip N.
ScotDB Limited
([email protected])

4

Hi Phil,

Philip N. wrote:

You’ll find more on using DB2 with Rails in my blog -

I’ve downloaded, but not yet installed, the Getting Started toolkit
(might
be called something slightly different) for Windows from the
developerworks
site. It looked from the description like it was similar to the Instant
Rails distro; Ruby / Rails / DB / Webserver all-in-one. I’m hoping I’ll
get
a chance to try it out tomorrow, but thought I’d ask if you know
anything
about it. Like, in particular, is my assumption about the content
correct?
I’m currently using Instant Rails for a number of reasons, most
significantly its standalone / self-contained characteristics. Is the
DB2
distro like that?

Thanks,
Bill

5

If this is the Windows “Getting Started” then it includes DB2 Express-C
and
the precompiled adapter for DB2. Not sure if it actually installs Ruby
and
Rails too, but I guess it does (I’m a Linux person myself, and so
downloaded
the source code only).

There is a newer (and considerably improved) version of the IBM adapter
/
driver available from the RubyForge site -

http://rubyforge.org/projects/rubyibm

Note that the ibm_db2 driver has been renamed as ibm_db (it now covers
more
than DB2 on Linux, UNIX and Windows). I’d suggest that if you don’t
have
DB2 installed already, and are using Windows, you should download and
install
the code from Alphaworks and then use gem to install ibm_db.

You’ll find details in my presentation of the extra steps you’ll need to
carry
out to use this : a couple of edits to add ibm_db to the list of
supported
adapters in Rails and ActiveRecord.

HTH

Phil

6

Philip N. wrote:

http://www.scotdb.com/downloads.html

HTH

Phil

Thanks Phil

I think that’s the presentation that I had offered to proof read once
upon a time :smiley:

Cheers
mohit.

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On Saturday 26 May 2007 06:15, Mohit S. wrote:

(International DB2 Users Group) in San Jose, which you can retrieve from
I think that’s the presentation that I had offered to proof read once
upon a time :smiley:

Cheers
mohit.

Probably : I had to do lots of last minute adjustments after IBM
released
ibm_db 0.6.0 one week before the conference. So I never got round to
sending it out for proof reading.

Phil