April 2010

A comparison JRuby vs. Ruby MRI with Sequel

Posted by Michael on April 25, 2010 in General

For the most part, I stick with Apache 2, Phusion Passenger, and Ruby MRI as my deployment stack. Even so, I regularly foray into other territories to see what’s going on in the wide world of Ruby. This weekend, I turned my eyes to JRuby again for the first time in almost 18 [...]

Getting Ruby to talk to MSDE

Posted by Michael on April 9, 2010 in Configuration, General, Ruby Language, SQL, Setups

Getting Ruby to talk to Microsoft SQL Server 2005 is one thing. Getting Ruby to talk to Microsoft SQL Server Developer Edition 2000, has one twist that threw me off for hours. Here, I’ll show you how to do and hopefully save you lots of frustration and brain damage from banging your head [...]