This is a native SQL Anywhere driver for Ruby. This library wraps the functionality provided by the SQL Anywhere DBCAPI library. This driver is intended to be a base-level library to be used by interface libraries such as Ruby-DBI and ActiveRecord.

This driver can be used with SQL Anywhere 10 and later versions.

This driver is licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.

The official code repository is located on GitHub. The repository can be cloned with:

git clone git://github.com/ccouzens/sqlanywhere-ffi.git

1. Change to the the test directory cd test
2. Create a testing database: dbinit test
3. Start the testing database: dbeng12 test.db
4. Create the test schema: dbisql -c "eng=test;uid=dba;pwd=sql" test.sql
5. Run the unit tests: ruby sqlanywhere_test.rb

If the tests fail to run, make sure you have set up the SQL Anywhere environment variables correctly. For more information, review the online documentation here. I run source /opt/sqlanywhere12/bin64/sa_config.sh in my shell before running the tests.

This script makes a connection, prints Successful Ruby Connection to the SQL Anywhere console, then disconnects.

# load the SQLAnywhere gem
require 'sqlanywhere-ffi'
# create an interface
api = SQLAnywhere::SQLAnywhereInterface.new()
# initialize the interface (doesn't actually do anything, but kept for compatibility)
SQLAnywhere::API.sqlany_initialize_interface( api )
# initialize our api object
api.sqlany_init()
# create a connection
conn = api.sqlany_new_connection()
# establish a connection
api.sqlany_connect(conn, "uid=dba;pwd=sql")
# execute a query without a result set
api.sqlany_execute_immediate(conn, "MESSAGE 'Successful Ruby Connection'")
# disconnect from the database
api.sqlany_disconnect(conn)
# free the connection resources
api.sqlany_free_connection(conn)
# free resources the api object uses
api.sqlany_fini()
# close the interface (doesn't actually do anything, but kept for compatibility)
SQLAnywhere::API.sqlany_finalize_interface( api )