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    <p>I'm trying to put a rails face on a legacy database. It is an old Sybase 11 database installation. I've gotten an ODBC connection working that uses unixODBC and FreeTDS to work. I'm also using the activerecord-odbc-adapter gem.</p> <p>I've had to use set_table_name and set_primary_key to make it work so far. However, none of the dynamic find_by methods work. I always get a method missing error. Also, find through association doesn't work as well with the same error. Normal finds on the models work, but I was hoping I can shorthand some of this.</p> <p>Am I SOL on this because it's a legacy DB or is there something I can do or check to make that work?</p> <p>If I can, that would save me some work writing SQL.</p> <p>Thank you.</p> <p>Edit:</p> <p>Console Output:</p> <pre><code>Person.find_by_last_name("Smith") NoMethodError: undefined method `find_by_last_name' for Person(Table doesn't exist):Class from /opt/ruby-enterprise-1.8.6-20090201/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.2.2/lib/active_record/base.rb:1778:in `method_missing' from (irb):1 Person.find(:first, :conditions =&gt; { :last_name =&gt; "Smith" }) #&lt;Person Person_ID: &lt;redacted&gt;, Title: "Mr.", First_Name: "Aaron", Middle_Name: "Michael", Last_Name: "Smith", Suffix: nil, Preferred_Name: nil </code></pre> <p>Further Edit:</p> <p>I took a wild guess and capitalized Last_Name. That returned something. It looks like I'm going to have to do that. I still don't know how the association part would work though. That's still an issue.</p>
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