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ActiveRecord Firebird Adapter for Rails 3 and 4 with support for migrations.
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 Releases
Current version
1.0.3
Total releases
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First release
2012-05-07
Latest release
2016-02-29
 Issues
Open Issues
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Total Issues
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Issue Closure Rate
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 Pull Requests
Open Pull Requests
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Pull Request Acceptance Rate
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 Development
Primary Language
Ruby
Licenses
MIT
Average date of last 50 commits
2015-05-13
Reverse Dependencies
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 Dependencies

Development

minitest-reporters
>= 0
minitest-spec-rails
>= 0
mocha
>= 0
pry-byebug
>= 0

Runtime

activerecord
>= 3.2.0
fb
>= 0.7.4
 Project Readme

ActiveRecord Firebird Adapter

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This is the ActiveRecord adapter for working with the [Firebird SQL Server](http://firebirdsql.org/). It currently supports Rails 3.2.x and 4.x. Although this adapter may not yet have feature parity with the 1st tier databases supported by Rails, it has been used in production by different people without issues and may be considered stable. It uses under the hood the [Ruby Firebird Extension Library](https://github.com/rowland/fb).

What's supported

  • Datatypes: string, integer, datetime, boolean, float, decimal, text (blob).
  • Rails migrations and db/schema.rb generation.
  • Linux, OS X, and Windows supported.

Getting started

  1. Install and start the Firebird Server in your machine (varies across operating systems).

  2. Create a new Rails project.

rails new firebird_test
cd firebird_test
  1. Edit the project Gemfile and add the activerecord-fb-adapter gem:
gem 'activerecord-fb-adapter'

Then run:

bundle install

Bundler will install the gem and it's dependency, Fb, which is "native" (has C code) and will be compiled the first time. Be sure you have a Firebird installation with access to the "ibase.h" file for this to succeed.

  1. Edit the database.yml for configuring your database connection:
development:
  adapter: fb
  database: db/development.fdb
  username: SYSDBA
  password: masterkey
  host: localhost
  encoding: UTF-8
  create: true

The default Firebird administrator username and password are SYSDBA and masterkey, you may have to adjust this to your installation.

With the "create: true" option, a database will be created the first time the adapter tries to connect if it doesn't exist. Alternatively, if you're using Rails 4 or greater, you can use the "rake db:create" task.

  1. Start the rails server in development mode
bundle exec rails server

Open your browser at http://localhost:3000, this will create the database on the first connection.

On Linux you may get:

Fb::Error (Unsuccessful execution caused by a system error that precludes successful execution of subsequent statements
I/O error during "open O_CREAT" operation for file "db/development.fdb"
Error while trying to create file
Permission denied

This is because, by default, the Firebird Server runs under the "firebird" user and group, which has no write access to the "db" folder of the project. To fix it run:

chmod o+w db

which will add write permission to "others" group.

  1. Now you can start generating scaffolds or models and rails will create the corresponding migrations. Use bundle exec rake db:migrate and bundle exec rake db:rollback for migrating the database; this will update your db/schema.rb file automatically.

License

It is free software, and may be redistributed under the terms specified in the MIT-LICENSE file.