Getting Install Details On The Wiki

[Ken Collins]

All,

I started by writing a comprehensive guide to getting the adapter
stack on OS X. It even covers ruby 1.8 and 1.9 and the x86_64 goodness
in Snow Leopard.

http://wiki.github.com/rails-sqlserver/2000-2005-adapter/platform-installation

If there are more, can you guys format them in Textile and get em too
me so I can put em up on the Wiki. Perhaps some feedback on my blog
article on it?

- Thanks
Ken

[Scott Jacobsen]

Ken,

Thanks. I think it will really help people to have a central place with install instructions.

My Ubuntu instructions are here. http://wiki.github.com/scottjacobsen/2000-2005-adapter/installation-on-ubuntu

The are somewhat rough since they are from memory.

I believe you can just click edit and then copy the textile.

Your article looks really good. I'm going to send links to some of my mac using friends.

My only suggestion is that you keep the suggestions on the wiki where they are community editable unless you want to become the goto guy for somebody's crazy A/UX stack or something :)

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Scott Jacobsen <sc...@mobilefoundry.net>
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skype: jacobsenscott

[Scott Jacobsen]

oops.

s/keep the suggestions/keep the instructions /

[Ken Collins]

Good lord, I completely forgot that anyone can edit the Wiki. I copied yours over to mine too. Very cool!

 - Ken

[Scott Jacobsen]

It is too easy to edit the wiki. You can see i accidentally added my ubuntu instructions page to the core rails wiki here: http://wiki.github.com/rails/rails/installing-the-2000-2005-adapter-on-ubuntu :) I've been working too much on a holiday weekend.

Only the owner of the wiki can actually delete pages.

[Nick Tidey]

Hi Scott

Just wondering what version of Ubuntu your instructions are tailored
to? I tried updating one of my Ubuntu environments running 8.04.1 and
the package freetds-common doesn't exist. Possibly a non-issue.

I ran into trouble with the ruby dbi/odbc bindings, so I'm about to
try following your instructions from scratch on a clean slice. Will
let you know how it goes.

Cheers
Nick

On Sep 7, 2:54 am, Scott Jacobsen <sc...@mobilefoundry.net> wrote:
> It is too easy to edit the wiki. You can see i accidentally added my ubuntu

> instructions page to the core rails wiki here:http://wiki.github.com/rails/rails/installing-the-2000-2005-adapter-o...

> :)
> I've been working too much on a holiday weekend.
> Only the owner of the wiki can actually delete pages.
>
>
>
>
>
> On Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 10:50 AM, Ken Collins <k...@metaskills.net> wrote:
>
> > Good lord, I completely forgot that anyone can edit the Wiki. I copied
> > yours over to mine too. Very cool!
> >  - Ken
>
> > On Sep 6, 2009, at 11:21 AM, Scott Jacobsen wrote:
>
> > Ken,
>
> > Thanks. I think it will really help people to have a central place with
> > install instructions.
>
> > My Ubuntu instructions are here.

> >http://wiki.github.com/scottjacobsen/2000-2005-adapter/installation-o...

>
> > The are somewhat rough since they are from memory.
>
> > I believe you can just click edit and then copy the textile.
>
> > Your article looks really good. I'm going to send links to some of my mac
> > using friends.
>
> > My only suggestion is that you keep the suggestions on the wiki where they
> > are community editable unless you want to become the goto guy for somebody's
> > crazy A/UX stack or something :)
>
> > On Sat, Sep 5, 2009 at 5:53 PM, Ken Collins <k...@metaskills.net> wrote:
>
> >> All,
>
> >> I started by writing a comprehensive guide to getting the adapter
> >> stack on OS X. It even covers ruby 1.8 and 1.9 and the x86_64 goodness
> >> in Snow Leopard.
>

> >>http://wiki.github.com/rails-sqlserver/2000-2005-adapter/platform-ins...

[Nick Tidey]

From a fresh install of Ubuntu 8.04, the instructions worked
perfectly. Though I ran into an odd error using isql against Server
2008 and have asked on the FreeTDS mailing list about it.

Cheers
Nick

[Scott Jacobsen]

Thanks for the feedback. I don't have any clean machines to test my instructions on right now so I was kind of winging it.

It looks like freetds-common only exists on Ubuntu 9.04. The only thing that package provides is documentation and example config files. It will be pulled in automatically when tdsodbc is installed so I removed it from the instructions.

I haven't had any problems with isql, but I've only used it to test the connection. Feel free to update the instructions or let me know if there's something I need to change when you figure it out.

[Nick Tidey]

The issue I had was with the apt package of FreeTDS on Ubuntu 8.04
(about v0.63 I think) and TDS version 8.0 running against Server 2008.
Dropping back to TDS 7.0 fixed the issue, as did updating my FreeTDS
install, from source, to the latest version. I expect Ubuntu 9.04
packages would include a more recent version of FreeTDS that probably
includes the fix.

The thread from the FreeTDS mailing list is here if interested:
http://lists.ibiblio.org/pipermail/freetds/2009q3/025203.html

N.