# Ruby & Sybase

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-sybase/99866>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [July 26, 2006, 12:42am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-sybase/99866 "2006-07-26T00:42:23Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![d0t1q](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/9e8a1a/32.png) [@d0t1q](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/d0t1q)\
**Post date:** [July 26, 2006, 12:42am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-sybase/99866/1 "2006-07-26T00:42:23Z")

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I’m having great difficulty migrating my ruby application from win32  
to solaris 8.

On windows, I was able to install dbi and connect to our sybase db’s  
through dbi:odbc:sybase-ase…

I must now migrate this ruby app to a solaris 8 environment which I  
have failed at miserably thus far.

I can connect to sybase from unix through isql and perl, --just not  
ruby…

I’ve tried compiling the sybse library --no luck

I’ve even looked into using Mats’ ruby-perl module so that I could  
leverage the working perl connectivity but even that doesent work…

Are there any other options???

I fear that I’m going to have to write some sort of isql std out  
capture method just to talk to sybase ☹

thank you for any help you can provide.

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**Author:** ![d0t1q](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/9e8a1a/32.png) [@d0t1q](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/d0t1q)\
**Post date:** [July 26, 2006, 2:43pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-sybase/99866/2 "2006-07-26T14:43:48Z")

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On 7/26/06, x1 [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

> I’m having great difficulty migrating my ruby application from win32  
> to solaris 8.
> 
> On windows, I was able to install dbi and connect to our sybase db’s  
> through dbi:odbc:sybase-ase…
> 
> I must now migrate this ruby app to a solaris 8 environment which I  
> have failed at miserably thus far.

You may need to be more specific about this failure to get a response  
here. What have you tried? What was the result?

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**Author:** ![d0t1q](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/9e8a1a/32.png) [@d0t1q](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/d0t1q)\
**Post date:** [July 27, 2006, 1:25am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-sybase/99866/3 "2006-07-27T01:25:48Z")

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After 7 hours of trial and error, I manged to get the ruby sybase  
library working properly. I plan to post details soon.

Thank you