ActiveMDB
by Matthew King
http://rubyforge.org/projects/activemdb/

== DESCRIPTION:

Lib for getting info out of MS Access (.mdb) files, which uses ActiveRecord-ish reflection to parse table and column names.

Intended for exploration and migration, not production. ActiveMDB provides a thin wrapper around the mdb-tables, mdb-schema, mdb-sql, and mdb-export binaries from Brian Bruns's MDB Tools project (http://mdbtools.sourceforge.net/).

== FEATURES/PROBLEMS:

* MDB, Table, and Record classes do reflection to provide easy attribute readers
* I really need to refactor the above classes to something more like ActiveRecord::Base, so that you can subclass to make models.

== SYNOPSIS:

@mdb = MDB.new('db/sample.mdb', :exclude => 'lookups')
@employees = @mdb.employees

# in the find_* methods, the entries in the hash
# get turned into "WHERE #key like %#value%" conditions,
# unless the column is a boolean, in which case the WHERE uses "="
@employees.find_first :f_name => 'Matthew', :l_name => 'King'

== REQUIREMENTS:

* http://mdbtools.sourceforge.net/

== INSTALL:

* Sadly, no easy install at this time.

== LICENSE:

(The MIT License)

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