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Just wondering what the best way to access read only information form a Microsoft Access file in a Rails 3 application would be, I know I could convert the data to CSV and then do a manual import into Postgres or SQLite but this data is ever changing as it is used in a business application at my work place and this would mean doing an import a few times a day.
If anyone could point me to a solution then it would be much appreciated.
There are commercial cross-platform odbc drivers for MS-Access I think, but nothing open-source that can reliably read/write (and I could have used them once or twice in the last few years).
If you are on Windows you should presumably be able to use ODBC with a .MDB compatible driver. If not, you might be able to use MS-SQL server as a proxy (there’s the “express” free version) or perhaps a java/perl proxy (jackess / DBD::Proxy) but none of these are going to be a simple plug+play solution.
If you’re committed to Access then something like EasySoft’s driver might be the simplest solution. Worth the money if it works well, but I’ve no direct experience with it myself.