rails-sqlserver/tiny_tds: TinyTDS - Simple and fast FreeTDS bindings for Ruby using DB-Library.

The TinyTDS gem is meant to serve the extremely common use-case of connecting, querying and iterating over results to Microsoft SQL Server from Ruby using the FreeTDS's DB-Library API. TinyTDS offers automatic casting to Ruby primitives along with proper encoding support. It converts all SQL Server datatypes to native Ruby primitives while supporting :utc or :local time zones for time-like types. To date it is the only Ruby client library that allows client encoding options, defaulting to UTF-8, while connecting to SQL Server. It also properly encodes all string and binary data. The API is simple and consists of these classes: TinyTds::Client - Your connection to the database. TinyTds::Result - Returned from issuing an #execute on the connection. It includes Enumerable. TinyTds::Error - A wrapper for all FreeTDS exceptions.