DBF 1.0.2 Update
Posted on August 15, 2007 at 2:50 pm

DBF is a small fast library for reading dBase, xBase, Clipper and FoxPro database files. It is written completely in Ruby and has no external dependencies.

Changes in version 1.0.2:

  • Fixes a bug when reading Visual Foxpro memo files.
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2 Comments:
Posted on September 20, 2007 at 12:15 am by Glenn West

I’m using it to import some foxpro data, and so far so good.
I found oh that returning the “column” names in uppercase seems to confuse rails.
So a quick hack to force lowercase, and everything seems to be happy.

Posted on October 16, 2007 at 5:17 am by Glenn West

Wow, its working good so far.
I wrote a importer using dbf to move a large set of tables into oracle for a rails
app. So Far everything is workng good. (Of course the 20 years worth of dbase
tables have some very “invalid” field names, but my importer is handling the
conversion of those.