Hi,
Although I am an experienced developer, I am new to rails and enjoying how easy it is to build applications. I seem to have come across a stumbling block and was wondering if anyone out there has come across the same problem and could suggest possible solutions.
Problem:
I have an intranet-based application in a company network - using rails. The application has many sub-applications which may be composed of a handful of pages each.
The web application has its own database using MySQL which contains all application specific data, however, I need to retrieve data from different sources which maybe, MSSQL, Oracle or Sybase databases.
For example, I need to access a well establish Sybase database server which contains trade data so I can create a summary of daily Profit & Loss - after filtering, various calculations I will archive this summary data in the Applications MySQL DB for performance views etc.over time.
The Question:
In rails how do I do this neatly, rails is designed to use one database right? Would anyone be able to suggest ways in which I can access such data?
Many thanks in advance.
H