http://blogs.codegear.com/richardvowles Sat, 23 Dec 2006 02:28:43 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en-US Things just went crazy since i last posted - so I have only just finished testing the ActiveRecord patch for InterBase. Perhaps my biggest disappointment with it was finding out that ActiveRecord (the sub-project of Rails that Rails uses for accessing the database) does not support parameterized data types when ... http://blogs.codegear.com/richardvowles/2006/12/23/30846 I have managed to finish the porting of FireRuby to InterBase and added the requisite functionality (Booleans and SQL Roles). It is now available on RubyForge as Gem installs for two of InterBase's supported platforms (32 bit Linux and 32 bit Windows). If you use Ruby and Gems, just type ... http://blogs.codegear.com/richardvowles/2006/12/04/30235 I discovered something last night (and the R&D guys helped me sort it out) while implementing the ROLE option for Ruby connections to InterBase. If you create a role "CREATE ROLE SALES", then you connect to the database using connect database "db.ib" user "username" password "password" role "SALES"; or ... http://blogs.codegear.com/richardvowles/2006/11/30/30105 I love CodeGear! If only because I am able to focus on promoting the database I love - we had our first InterBase seminar this week. Even when Borland sold primarily Delphi and InterBase - we did not have an InterBase seminar. But the new features in InterBase 2007 _really_ ... http://blogs.codegear.com/richardvowles/2006/11/30/30104 Hi everyone! Who am I? As you see already, my name is Richard Vowles - I work for CodeGear in New Zealand - I have worked for Borland for roughly 10 years now, starting off with Delphi and InterBase and moving into the Java world (staying with InterBase though!). So ... http://blogs.codegear.com/richardvowles/2006/11/30/30102