# Ruby on Btrieve, it's possible?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-on-btrieve-its-possible/162436>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [March 9, 2009, 11:55pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-on-btrieve-its-possible/162436 "2009-03-09T23:55:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![anyel](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/50afbb/32.png) [@anyel](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/anyel)\
**Post date:** [March 9, 2009, 11:55pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-on-btrieve-its-possible/162436/1 "2009-03-09T23:55:19Z")

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Hi guys! Sorry, but i don’t write very good in english, anyway, let’s  
go.

I work in a company that uses a ERP software with Btrieve Database, can  
i (it’s possible) building a webapplication to access this data on  
btrieve? Only queries and reports.

PS: I never worked with Ruby, just ASP and .Net.

Thanks.

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**Author:** ![anyel](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/50afbb/32.png) [@anyel](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/anyel)\
**Post date:** [March 10, 2009, 12:11am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-on-btrieve-its-possible/162436/2 "2009-03-10T00:11:32Z")

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Anyel Black wrote:

> Hi guys! Sorry, but i don’t write very good in english, anyway, let’s  
> go.
> 
> I work in a company that uses a ERP software with Btrieve Database, can  
> i (it’s possible) building a webapplication to access this data on  
> btrieve? Only queries and reports.
> 
> PS: I never worked with Ruby, just ASP and .Net.

Google only gives 10 hits for [ruby btrieve]…

This might work:

- oledb (odbc) -\> dao -\> ruby

Or you might shell to a command line program that reads Btrieve and  
writes a  
tab-delimited text file format, then read that and use it.

–  
Phlip

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**Author:** ![anyel](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/50afbb/32.png) [@anyel](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/anyel)\
**Post date:** [March 12, 2009, 2:58pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-on-btrieve-its-possible/162436/3 "2009-03-12T14:58:33Z")

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Phlip wrote:

> Anyel Black wrote:
> 
> > Hi guys! Sorry, but i don’t write very good in english, anyway, let’s  
> > go.
> > 
> > I work in a company that uses a ERP software with Btrieve Database, can  
> > i (it’s possible) building a webapplication to access this data on  
> > btrieve? Only queries and reports.
> > 
> > PS: I never worked with Ruby, just ASP and .Net.
> 
> Google only gives 10 hits for [ruby btrieve]…
> 
> This might work:
> 
> - oledb (odbc) -\> dao -\> ruby
> 
> Or you might shell to a command line program that reads Btrieve and  
> writes a  
> tab-delimited text file format, then read that and use it.
> 
> –  
> Phlip

I’ll try. If I have problems, I will ask for help in forum, again.

Thanku, Phlip.