# IBM Article: DB2 on Rails **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [May 25, 2007, 10:08am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ibm-article-db2-on-rails/105052 "2007-05-25T10:08:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![mohits](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/bbe5ce/32.png) [@mohits](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/mohits)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2007, 10:08am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ibm-article-db2-on-rails/105052/1 "2007-05-25T10:08:50Z")
I often forward IBM DeveloperWorks articles about RoR to this list. This is a new well-written ‘Intermediate’ article using DB2 with Rails: > **[IBM Db2](https://www.ibm.com/products/db2)** > > IBM Db2 is the database to run your mission-critical workloads. Power low-latency transactions and real-time analytics across any cloud, hybrid, or on-prem. Hope this helps. Cheers Mohit. ---
**Author:** ![mohits](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/bbe5ce/32.png) [@mohits](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/mohits)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2007, 3:46pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ibm-article-db2-on-rails/105052/2 "2007-05-25T15:46:58Z")
Thanks for the link, Mohit. Very interesting. Best regards, Bill ---
**Author:** ![mohits](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/bbe5ce/32.png) [@mohits](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/mohits)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2007, 10:18pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ibm-article-db2-on-rails/105052/3 "2007-05-26T22:18:42Z")
Mohit, Thanks for the link. You’ll find more on using DB2 with Rails in my blog - [http://blogs.ittoolbox.com/database/geek](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](http://www.scotdb.com/downloads.html) HTH Phil > > – Philip N. ScotDB Limited (removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid) ---
**Author:** ![mohits](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/bbe5ce/32.png) [@mohits](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/mohits)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2007, 4:07pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ibm-article-db2-on-rails/105052/4 "2007-05-27T16:07:22Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![mohits](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/bbe5ce/32.png) [@mohits](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/mohits)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2007, 10:12pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ibm-article-db2-on-rails/105052/5 "2007-05-27T22:12:55Z")
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](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 ---
**Author:** ![mohits](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/bbe5ce/32.png) [@mohits](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/mohits)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2007, 11:02pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ibm-article-db2-on-rails/105052/6 "2007-09-25T23:02:48Z")
Philip N. wrote: > [http://www.scotdb.com/downloads.html](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 😃 Cheers mohit. ---
**Author:** ![mohits](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/bbe5ce/32.png) [@mohits](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/mohits)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2007, 11:05pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ibm-article-db2-on-rails/105052/7 "2007-09-25T23:05:04Z")
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 😃 > > 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