http://www.infused.org/2007/08/15/dbf-102-update/ Wed, 7 Jan 2009 19:58:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 http://www.infused.org/2007/08/15/dbf-102-update/comment-page-1/#comment-15531 Glenn West Tue, 16 Oct 2007 12:17:43 +0000 http://www.infused.org/2007/08/15/dbf-102-update/#comment-15531 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. 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.

]]> http://www.infused.org/2007/08/15/dbf-102-update/comment-page-1/#comment-15274 Glenn West Thu, 20 Sep 2007 07:15:49 +0000 http://www.infused.org/2007/08/15/dbf-102-update/#comment-15274 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. 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.

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