Got Sybase*? Got Rails? You're skewered. But you can do it with JRuby and jTDS. Assuming Ubuntu 9.04, but any deb-based system should do. *(or MSSQL, or SQLServer, whatever the heck it's called) Get jruby1.1 (or whatever the latest is). This also might drag in 90+ other dependencies. You don't have a choice. Get libjtds-java. Get the following gems: activerecord-jdbc-adapter jruby-openssl sudo apt