For accessing ODBC data sources from the Ruby language, I borrowed ideas from the MySQL Ruby API by Tomita Masahiro, the Ruby extension for PostgreSQL by Yukuhiro Matsumoto, Eiji Matsumoto, and Noboru Saitou, the tclodbc package by Roy Nurmi, Tom Poindexter, and Rob Savoye, the draft DBI specification by Michael Neumann, and started to write a Ruby extension module. So far it has been tested on Li