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Installing
These topics describe how to install HCL Informix® database servers, client products, and DataBlade® modules.
Client products
These topics describe how to install HCL Informix® client products.
Open source drivers
You can use open source languages to write applications for HCL Informix® database servers.
Ruby
HCL Informix® supports database access for client applications that are written in the Ruby programming language with two open source packages. Each package, which is known as a ruby gem, is a precompiled file that combines the Ruby driver and the Ruby on Rails adapter in a standard framework for the Ruby runtime environment.

Installing
These topics describe how to install HCL Informix® database servers, client products, and DataBlade® modules.
- Informix® server
  These topics describe how to install HCL Informix® database servers.
- Client products
  These topics describe how to install HCL Informix® client products.
  - Informix® Client SDK
    This topic describes how to install Informix® Client SDK on UNIX™, Linux™, and Windows™ operating systems.
  - Open source drivers
    You can use open source languages to write applications for HCL Informix® database servers.
    - PHP
      HCL Informix® supports database access for client applications that are written in the PHP programming language by using a PDO (PHP Data Object) extension that functions as a database extraction layer. Two open source PDO extensions are available for Informix: the PDO for Informix and the PDO for Data Server clients.
    - Ruby
      HCL Informix® supports database access for client applications that are written in the Ruby programming language with two open source packages. Each package, which is known as a ruby gem, is a precompiled file that combines the Ruby driver and the Ruby on Rails adapter in a standard framework for the Ruby runtime environment.
- DataBlade modules
  These topics describe how to install HCL Informix® DataBlade® modules.
- Informix® warehouse accelerator
  These topics describe how to install HCL Informix® warehouse accelerator.

Ruby

HCL Informix® supports database access for client applications that are written in the Ruby programming language with two open source packages. Each package, which is known as a ruby gem, is a precompiled file that combines the Ruby driver and the Ruby on Rails adapter in a standard framework for the Ruby runtime environment.

Ruby/Informix® Gem

Ruby/Informix® is the Ruby gem for connections to Informix® database servers. You can download Ruby/Informix® from the Rubyforge website at http://rubyforge.org/projects/ruby-informix.

To use Ruby/Informix®, you must install the Informix® ODBC Driver, which is part of the Informix® Client Software Development Kit (Client SDK).

Ruby Gem for Data Servers

The IBM_DB gem is the Ruby gem for Data Servers. The IBM_DB gem is supported on HCL Informix® 11.10 or later. Based on the DRDA® protocol, it allows Ruby applications to access both Informix® and DB2® data servers.

You can download Ruby/Informix® from the Rubyforge website at http://rubyforge.org/projects/rubyibm.

To use the IBM_DB gem, you must install the common CLI driver. The CLI driver is a component in the following clients and drivers:

Informix® Client Software Development Kit (Client SDK)
Data Server Client
Data Server Runtime Client
Data Server Driver for ODBC, CLI, and .NET (Windows™ only)
Data Server Driver for ODBC and CLI

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