Firebird adapter HELP???????

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Hi Rick,

I actually asked the same question a while ago Rails + Firebird 2.1.x - Rails - Ruby-Forum. And as you can see there was no answers for that. But, after some trial and error I managed to get it to work.

Before I posted the thread asking for help, I went through the following tutorial Mariuz's Blog: Installing Firebird Active Record driver for Ruby, but I did not get it to work, and that is when I got that error message. But, I found out what was missing.

I installed it under Ubuntu Linux, and first I made sure that libfbclient.so was in /usr/lib. In other words, if you installed from the repository, then make sure that you install firebird-dev. I always install from the archives.

Next, you do the following:

1) install fb-0.5.9 2) install fb_adapter 3) go to the folder where fb-0.5.9 is (in my case it is under /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/fb-0.5.9), and do a sudo make install. That should install fb-0.5.9.

That's it, you can now follow the rest of the tutorial from

Migrations aren't yet working.

Good luck!

Fidel.

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Sorry, wrong link. Here is the correct one

All the best,

Fidel.

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Thanks for sharing the knowledge, you're a life-saver.

Best regards, Rick

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No problem. I am working on the code to add support for migrations, and will share that as well soon. Right now, I am able to do some migrations, but I still have to do a fair bit of testing. I am not really a Ruby expert, so it takes a little more time, because I have to read about certain features.

Anyway, I will share after I finish.

All the best,

Fidel.