# $Id: README,v 1.13 2001/10/11 11:10:57 chw Exp chw $

ruby-odbc-0.94

This is an ODBC binding for Ruby. So far it has been tested with

    - Ruby 1.6.[3-5], MySQL 3.22/MyODBC (local), unixODBC 2.0.[6-9]
      on Linux 2.2-x86

    - Ruby 1.6.4, MySQL 3.22/MyODBC (local), libiodbc 2.50
      on Linux 2.2-x86

    - Ruby 1.6.[3-5], MySQL 3.22/MyODBC (remote), MS Jet Engine, MSVC++ 6.0
      on Windows NT4SP6

    - Ruby 1.6.[3-5], MySQL 3.22/MyODBC (remote), MS Jet Engine, cygwin,
      on Windows NT4SP6 and 2000

    Michael Neumann <neumann@s-direktnet.de> and
    Will Merrell <wmerrell@catalystcorp.com> reported successful compilation
    with Cygwin on Win32.

Requirements:

    - Ruby 1.6.[3-5]
    - unixODBC 2.0.x or libiodbc 2.50 on UN*X 

Installation:

    $ ruby extconf.rb
    $ make
    # make install

Testing:

    $ ruby test.rb DSN [uid] [pwd]

Usage:

    Refer to doc/odbc.html

TODO:

    - heavier testing
    - improve documentation

Author:

    Christian Werner
    mailto:chw@ch-werner.de
    http://www.ch-werner.de/rubyodbc
