http://blogs.msdn.com/b/silverlining/archive/2011/09/14/using-active-record-with-sql-azure.aspx[Updated 3/12/2013] Active Record is an object-relational mapping (ORM) that makes it easy to work with databases. While there are other ORMs out there for Ruby, Active Record is very popular and I wanted to walk through using it with SQL Azure Windowsen-USTelligent Evolution Platform Developer Build (Build: 5.6.50428.7875)http://blogs.msdn.com/b/silverlining/archive/2011/09/14/using-active-record-with-sql-azure.aspx#10401615Tue, 12 Mar 2013 15:08:59 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:10401615Larry Franks<p>Updated to take Nikolai&#39;s feedback as well as updates to the Windows Azure portal and product names and other stuff. Sorry it took so long to get around to this.</p> <div style="clear:both;"></div><img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=10401615" width="1" height="1">http://blogs.msdn.com/b/silverlining/archive/2011/09/14/using-active-record-with-sql-azure.aspx#10269556Mon, 20 Feb 2012 02:49:15 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:10269556Nikolai Manek<p>Hi Larry,</p> <p>very helpful post - Thank you!</p> <p>It looks like the issue (Rails 3.1+) has been solved a couple months back (<a rel="nofollow" target="_new" href="https://github.com/rails-sqlserver/activerecord-sqlserver-adapter/commit/fdb7cb05">github.com/.../fdb7cb05</a>). Maybe you would like to update your post as it shows up in the top spot if searching for &quot;sql azure with rails&quot;?</p> <p>Cheers,</p> <p>Nikolai</p> <div style="clear:both;"></div><img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=10269556" width="1" height="1">