Welcome,
to answer just a few:
1) Is win32 good-enough for learning Ruby on? I have other
machines (XP,
OSX) but the win98se machine is my workhorse (being a slim
VAIO notebook
it lives on the kitchen table).
I realy think so...
4) Noting Q1, what's the best/easiest/quickest route to ODBC access?
using the one-click installer (1.8.2) I was able to do somethink like:
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require 'dbi'
DBI.connect("DBI:ODBC:driver=Microsoft Access Driver (*.mdb);"+
"dbq=C:/path/to/my/db.mdb") do |dbh|
dbh.select_all('select * from myTable') {|row| p row}
end
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cheers
Simon