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Starter Toolkit for DB2 on Rails Update

Antonio Cangiano

We just released an update for the Starter Toolkit for DB2 on Rails.
A few changes:

  • Compatible with the other adapters. It solves a nasty issue which used to previously cause problems when using other adapters;
  • If a schema is omitted, the username is now used by default (thanks for the suggestion, Edd );
  • Improved error messages. In most cases, error message now provide DB2 CLI error codes and messages;
  • Better index handling.

Please update your system (the first point of the list above is quite critical). Just click on All Programs → DB2 on Rails → Check for Updates.

How do you do a quick manual update?

If you have already installed the first release of DB2onRails, you can just download DB2onRails_V1.1_Source.zip (160 Kb) and replace the file ibm_db2_adapter.rb in

C:\ruby\lib\ruby\gems\1.8\gems\activerecord-1.14.2\
lib\active_record\connection_adapters

(or equivalent on your system) with this new one.

You can join us in the alphaWorks forum

Antonio Cangiano

Antonio Cangiano is an Engineering Manager and AI Specialist at IBM. He authored Ruby on Rails for Microsoft Developers (Wrox, 2009) and Technical Blogging (The Pragmatic Bookshelf, 2012, 2019). He is also the Marketing Lead for Cognitive Class, an educational initiative which he helped grow from zero to over 3 Million students. You can follow him on Twitter.

One response to “Starter Toolkit for DB2 on Rails Update”

  1. Harry

    I am looking forward to an iSeries connector for DB2 on Rails. In the mean time I will be experimenting with DB2 Connect on both Windows and Linux. I wish you luck and Happy Holidays.