See also: HowtoConnectToMicrosoftSQLServerFromRailsOnLinux which appears to be using an ODBC connection. This could also provide support for Progress.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/data – Microsoft ‘umbrella’ page, includes ODBC
http://www.unixodbc.org/ – “The unixODBC Project goals are to develop and promote unixODBC to be the definitive standard for ODBC on non MS Windows platforms. This is to include GUI support for both KDE and GNOME.”
http://www.iodbc.org – “iODBC is the acronym for Independent Open Data-Base Connectivity, an Open Source platform independent implementation of both the ODBC and X/Open specifications.”
http://www.iodbc.org/index.php?page=languages/ruby/odbc-rubyHOWTO – “a HOWTO document for installing Ruby with iODBC on Linux or Unix”
http://www.ch-werner.de/rubyodbc/ – ODBC Binding for Ruby
http://rubyforge.org/projects/odbc-rails/ – An ODBC Adapter for ActiveRecord, facilitating use of any ODBC-accessible database in Rails. 2008-04-24: New release adding support for ActiveRecord 2.0 and Rails 2.0, DSN-less connections and SQLAnywhere.
See also: HowtoConnectToMicrosoftSQLServerFromRailsOnLinux which appears to be using an ODBC connection. This could also provide support for Progress.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/data – Microsoft ‘umbrella’ page, includes ODBC
http://www.unixodbc.org/ – “The unixODBC Project goals are to develop and promote unixODBC to be the definitive standard for ODBC on non MS Windows platforms. This is to include GUI support for both KDE and GNOME.”
http://www.iodbc.org – “iODBC is the acronym for Independent Open Data-Base Connectivity, an Open Source platform independent implementation of both the ODBC and X/Open specifications.”
http://www.iodbc.org/index.php?page=languages/ruby/odbc-rubyHOWTO – “a HOWTO document for installing Ruby with iODBC on Linux or Unix”
http://www.ch-werner.de/rubyodbc/ – ODBC Binding for Ruby
http://rubyforge.org/projects/odbc-rails/ – An ODBC Adapter for ActiveRecord, facilitating use of any ODBC-accessible database in Rails. 2008-04-24: New release adding support for ActiveRecord 2.0 and Rails 2.0, DSN-less connections and SQLAnywhere.