vsbabu.org : ruby http://vsbabu.org/mt/archives/categories/ruby/ Gluing passing thoughts to foregone conclusions en-us vsbabu@gmail.com Copyright 2008 2005-07-19T13:50:42+05:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 Oracle with Active Record http://vsbabu.org/mt/archives/2005/07/19/oracle_with_active_record.html Thanks to ActiveRecord, it is a breeze to program Oracle using Ruby. Here's a quick note about how to do this on MS Windows. 1011@http://vsbabu.org/mt/
  • Install Ruby
  • Install Active Record. Open a DOS shell and run gem install activerecord.
  • Install OCI8 driver for Ruby. Download ruby-oci8-mswin and double click it.

    • Assuming you've standard scott/tiger schema on some Oracle connection (the TNSNAMES.ORA entry in the example below is named as development), here is a small sample script that shows how to manipulate the data in one table.

    ]]>     ruby 2005-07-19T13:50:42+05:00     MPP to SQLite via Ruby http://vsbabu.org/mt/archives/2005/04/27/mpp_to_sqlite_via_ruby.html Combine MS Project with Ruby and SQLite to make reporting easier. 1001@http://vsbabu.org/mt/ I still love Python. Thought I will try my luck with Ruby. I still like Python's syntax better. However, since everyone these days is talking about Ruby on Rails, I will look into it as well. As part of that, I am in the process of figuring out Ruby and the components that make RoR.

    I especially liked ActiveRecord. It turned out to be very easy to write a quick script on windows that opens up an MS Project file, loads the tasks into a SQLite database and run some queries. Motivation for this is the fact that most reports that come with MS Project are not very useful to me. Once I get it into a SQL database, it becomes much more easier for me to automate further actions.

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