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With rails 2.0.2 and ibm_db 0.9.2 the command "rake db:create:all" runs without error, but does not create any databases. Subsequently, starting script/server and clicking the "About your application's environment" on the default start page causes the following error: Failed to connect to the [xchngdev] due to: [IBM][CLI Driver] SQL1013N The database alias name or database name "XCHNGDEV" could not be found. SQLSTATE=42705 SQLCODE=-1013
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Date: 2007-12-21 14:42 Sender: Alex Pitigoi It's probably worth a try, given the general view in the Rails development to have all non-core functionality added through gems, rather than contributed directly into the Rails gem itself. Before asking for it though, in order to increase the chances of getting attention, I think we need to do some homework and provide at least an initial solution that would prove how a gem based extension would hook into Rails tasks. Rails development team is certainly more receptive when some up-front leg-work was done for a fix, and it's reasonable, given it works as is quite well for them.
Date: 2007-12-21 03:24 Sender: Joshua Poulson Should I file a trac against rails to open an API for database adapters there?
Date: 2007-12-21 00:54 Sender: Alex Pitigoi Joshua, I think we need to clarify something before hand: the 'rake db:create:all' is a task defined by the Rails gem. That is located in the $GEM_HOME/gems/rails-2.0.1/lib/tasks/databases.rake, therefore it's code solely under Rails gem control. I know some databases have the privilege of getting some support in there, but this is one place were IBM_DB gem is out of bounds. The IBM_DB team doesn't have legal clearance to contribute in that place (not even read the code source), but Antonio Cangiano has posted some related and helpful hints for those interested: http://db2onrails.com/2007/06/20/rake-db-test-purge-and-rake-db-t est-clone/ I hope this helps clarify why this cannot explicitly be fixed in the IBM_DB gem yet. We'll need to find some other way to have this Rails task supported by DB vendors outside the Rails gem.
