# Rails and Firebird 2

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-and-firebird-2/114677>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [September 17, 2007, 1:24pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-and-firebird-2/114677 "2007-09-17T13:24:03Z")\
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**Author:** ![lee](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/bc8723/32.png) [@lee](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/lee)\
**Post date:** [September 17, 2007, 1:24pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-and-firebird-2/114677/1 "2007-09-17T13:24:03Z")

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I am considering trying out Firebird 2.0.1 with my Rails app. I  
currently use MySQL. I am told that Firebird offers good performance/  
features, and is free to use under any circumstances (project  
contributions aside) unlike MySQL.

I have managed to get my Rails app to talk to a Firebird DB through  
use of the Fireruby gem, but it was necessary to first set up links -  
e.g. “ln -s /usr/lib/libfbclient.s0.2 /usr/lib/libfbclient.so.1” - to  
overcome a problem whereby the require\_gem ‘fireruby’ was complaining  
that it could not find shared object file libfbclient.so.1. Has anyone  
else experienced this problem?

Are there any other approaches that I may have overlooked?

I would also be grateful for people’s experiences with Firebird and  
Rails.

Thanks.