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I followed this nice guide Connecting to MSSQL with Ruby on Ubuntu - lambie.org until I ran in the following errors...
This is one possibility to do this. There are other and maybe even better ways to do this.
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Nice article to educate your non-geek girlfriend/boyfriend about the joys of programming.
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Pour color on your Rails console with awesome_print. Turn confusing long strings into formatted output. Have objects and classes...
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