Setting up Rails to work with sqlserver

Question

Ok I followed the steps for setting up ruby and rails on my Vista machine and I am having a problem connecting to the database.

Contents of database.yml

Answer 1

Correct link is http://rubyrailsandwindows.blogspot.com/2008/03/rails-2-and-sql-server-2008-on-windows_24.html

Answer 2

I used and ODBC data source and the SQL Server adapter on Windows Server 2008 against SQL Server 2000 running on a remote instance.

Install SQL Server Adapter

gem.bat install activerecord-sqlserver-adapter
  Successfully installed deprecated-2.0.1
  Successfully installed dbi-0.4.1
  Successfully installed dbd-odbc-0.2.4
  Successfully installed activerecord-sqlserver-adapter-2.2.22
  4 gems installed

Create an ODBC datasource

• Type: SQL Server
• Name: rails_development
• Description: rails_development
• Server: SERVER
• SQL Authentication (sa/12345)
• Default Database: DATABASE

Setup database.yml

development:
    adapter: sqlserver
    mode: odbc
    dsn: rails_development
    username: sa
    password: 12345

YMMV

A couple of helpful links:

• http://rubyrailsandwindows.blogspot.com/2008/03/rails-2-and-sql-server-2008-on-windows_24.html
• http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/HowToUseLegacySchemas

Answer 3

I too had faced this problem. There is another work around. You can create a DSN for the app db from control panel->admin tools->Odbc. Database.yml file should look like below:

adapter: sqlserver
mode: odbc
dsn: DSN_NAME
host: localhost
database: App_development
username: uname
password: password

I tried using the deprecated gem, wasn't of much use. I had tried installing an ADO adaptor too which rendered useless.

Answer 4

Did you install the SQL Server adapter?

gem install activerecord-sqlserver-adapter --source=http://gems.rubyonrails.org

Answer 5

If you're on a 64 bit machine, there are two ODBC administrator programs, one for 32 bit and one for 64 bit. activerecord-sqlserver-adapter looks for DSNs set up with the 32 bit version.

Answer 6

I ran into the same problem yesterday. Apparently 'deprecated' is a gem, so you want to run "gem install deprecated" to grab and install the latest version. Good luck.