I am considering trying out Firebird 2.0.1 with my Rails app. I currently use MySQL. I am told that Firebird offers good performance/ features, and is free to use under any circumstances (project contributions aside) unlike MySQL.
I have managed to get my Rails app to talk to a Firebird DB through use of the Fireruby gem, but it was necessary to first set up links - e.g. "ln -s /usr/lib/libfbclient.s0.2 /usr/lib/libfbclient.so.1" - to overcome a problem whereby the require_gem 'fireruby' was complaining that it could not find shared object file libfbclient.so.1. Has anyone else experienced this problem?
Are there any other approaches that I may have overlooked?
I would also be grateful for people's experiences with Firebird and Rails.
Thanks.