Has anyone successfully worked around the lack of a LIMIT statement in Progress in order to connect Ruby on Rails with ActiveRecord to OE? Very simple REST urls like http://server/agecode/1 result in symptoms like
ActiveRecord::JDBCError: [DataDirect][OpenEdge JDBC Driver][OpenEdge] Syntax error in SQL statement at or about "LIMIT 1" (10713): SELECT agecode.* FROM agecode WHERE agecode.agecod = 1 LIMIT 1
I don't want to maintain my own copy of the framework to generate custom sql .... I was hoping that someone has solved this problem, or given up because it was too hard. Any information is greatly appreciated.
Have you tried one of the ruby gems that support OpenEdge?
There was a chap a while back who did some work with OE and Ruby - Abe Voelker. www.progresstalk.com/.../ruby-adapter-for-openedge-databases-released.121299
Might be worth contacting him for advice? Although, beware, he's not the biggest fan of OE.
James, that's an awesome lead, thank you. I'll investigate his work and reach out after I do.
I punted on ODBC fairly early on and went to JDBC; I tried a bunch of things that were not successful but did not keep good notes about what failed. The JDBC stuff looks pretty promising with a short list of stuff to deal with, but the LIMIT one seems like the hardest.
If you don't want to try ODBC there are also a few JDBC versions for OpenEdge out there. Abe has one but there are several others on github and other sites.