Got it. There's a small issue with sqlserver_adapter.rb and the way Micrsoft Azure advertises it's version.
There is a database_year function that tries to determine the version of SQL Server from the output of the following query: "SELECT @@version" For Non Azure SQL Server databases, the output is similar to the following: "Microsoft SQL Server 2008 (SP1) - 10.0.2531.0 (Intel X86) ..<blah blah>" the database_year funtion grabs the SQL Server version from the 4 digits following the word "Microsoft SQL Server": DATABASE_VERSION_REGEXP = /Microsoft SQL Server\s+(\d{4})/ def database_year DATABASE_VERSION_REGEXP.match(database_version)[1].to_i end In Azure, however, the query returns a different string: "Microsoft SQL Azure (RTM) - 10.25.9386.0 ..<blah blah>" That database_year function, as a result returns a nil string and breaks. As a test, I just changed the function to: def database_year 2008 end and I was able to connect my rails application to SQL Azure. There just needs to be a smarter way to ascertain the SQL Server version. Possible match up the 10.XX version number with the SQL Server 2005/2008 etc versions. Thanks very much for the help. Ameer -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. _______________________________________________ Ironruby-core mailing list Ironruby-core@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/ironruby-core