intertwingly

Antonio Cangiano: The IBM API development team has released version 1.0 of the ibm_db gem, which includes both the Ruby driver, and the Rails adapter, for IBM’s databases.

This was just over three years in the making.  Perhaps there is even some of my original code in there — though in reality, that matters not.  In the six months prior to that post, I spent a fair amount of time in meetings with people discussing whether it should be done, could it be done, and how much would it cost.  Addressing all three at once was too hard, so ultimately I decided to implement just enough code and test cases to demonstrate that it could be done, and no more.  This enabled those within IBM who organizationally should be responsible for such a thing to take over — a win, win for all concerned.