Hello there I've got a fresh ubuntu box and done some magic to it to get 32 bit unixODBC to connect to a 32 bit third party driver on a 64 bit Ubuntu box. isql is working.
http://webdev.blogs.glam.ac.uk/2011/08/04/32-bit-odbc-driver-with-32-bit-unixodbc-on-a-64-bit-ubuntu-os/ I now have to test connecting to this database using ruby, in order to get my rails app to talk to it. We're only pulling bits of data out here to populate a couple of pages with stuff, it's not the main database that runs the app. I've installed RVM on the machine, and then install ruby 1.8.7 using rvm which ruby /home/nonrootuser/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.8.7-p352/bin/ruby I've then downloaded the ruby-odbc driver from here http://www.ch-werner.de/rubyodbc/ruby-odbc-0.99994.tar.gz expanded it and I'm in the folder So now, to follow the instructions http://www.ch-werner.de/rubyodbc/README I do ruby -Cext extconf.rb --enable-dlopen straight away, an error ruby: Can't chdir to ext (fatal) maybe it's a typo in the instructions, let's try putting a space between the -C and ext, like it is in the make commands ruby -C ext extconf.rb --enable-dlopen ruby: Can't chdir to ext (fatal) Same error I thought this was going to be difficult, but I didn't imagine I'd get an error so early on. Can anyone help me out? I'm obviously doing or have done something stupid, again :-( Matt -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
