What's the right adapter to use for SQL Server?

Rails
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I am porting a Rails app that is made up of 2 rails projects to SQL
Server. The app already runs with MySQL and Oracle. One Rails project is
the UI with a database that contains user/project specific data. The
second Rails project is the database server for the main data. The UI
makes REST calls to the database to get data to display. There is a list
of product lines that is used on a search screen so the user chooses
which product line to search. My problem is that with SQL Server as the
database, about 80% of the time an exception gets thrown after the first
product line data is returned. The message from the exception is
“undefined method `name’ for nil:NilClass”.

This problem does not happen with MySQL nor Oracle as the database. So,
it appears to be something to do with the database. I am using
activerecord-sqlserver-adapter with a system DSN to connect to the
database. I also had to move from Ruby 1.8.7 back to 1.8.6 to get the
adapter to work at all. I have seen references to using ADO or ODBC
instead.

So my questions are:

  1. Has anybody else had a similar problem?
  2. What database adapter is the proper one to use with SQL Server?

Thanks in advance!
Norm

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Aside from the migrations and database.yml, have you changed any other
code in the app?

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command0 wrote:

Aside from the migrations and database.yml, have you changed any other
code in the app?

Nope, same code.

I am truly impressed with the portability of Rails apps! I did most of
my development with JRuby in Ubuntu. The other developer used
Ruby/Windows. The app runs on MySQL, Oracle, and SQL server from the
same code base. Unless an app does something strange, other than getting
a new environment set up and tweaking the config files, is about all you
have to do.

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So my questions are:

  1. Has anybody else had a similar problem?
  2. What database adapter is the proper one to use with SQL Server?

Thanks in advance!
Norm

I am using only simple access to MS SQL I also find out how to call
procedures. No problems so far.

ODBC is the only working way. Be it on Windows or Linux. Although it is
not so trivial to install support on Linux it can be done (I am the
proof :wink:

Search for “ruby odbc freetds” on google.

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TheR