# Two newbie questions **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [August 15, 2006, 4:15pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/two-newbie-questions/64992 "2006-08-15T16:15:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![bitsmith](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/9de053/32.png) [@bitsmith](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/bitsmith)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2006, 4:15pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/two-newbie-questions/64992/1 "2006-08-15T16:15:21Z")
practical ruby here @ work means access to M$ACCESS97 and Hardcopy reports with column headings etc…so… i’ve search with this forum with the Keyword: ACCESS and have searched all of my Ruby PDF’s How does one access M$ACCESS thru DBI?.. How does one print a report to the printer? RUPORT maybe?? but i don’t see any examples? ---
**Author:** ![bitsmith](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/9de053/32.png) [@bitsmith](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/bitsmith)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2006, 10:48pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/two-newbie-questions/64992/2 "2006-08-15T22:48:50Z")
On 8/15/06, Dave R. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > practical ruby here @ work means access to M$ACCESS97 and Hardcopy > reports with column headings etc…so… > i’ve search with this forum with the Keyword: ACCESS and have searched > all of my Ruby PDF’s > How does one access M$ACCESS thru DBI?.. > How does one print a report to the printer? RUPORT maybe?? but i don’t > see any examples? 1. from the page seems DBD::ADO or DBD::ODBC are appropriate. Try to download and read the docs that are supposed to be there, even reading sources is quite useful 😉 I’ve found that ruby sources tend to be quite readable (except for code-golfing 😉 2. try: [http://ruby-pdf.rubyforge.org/pdf-writer/](http://ruby-pdf.rubyforge.org/pdf-writer/) Disclaimer: I haven’t tried anything from above 😉 J.