Installation

Requirements

• 64-bit Ruby 2.x on Windows, Linux or macOS.
• SQL Server 2008 - 2017.

Windows

• Download and install 64-bit Ruby 2.4/2.5 + Devkit using RubyInstaller.
• Open up a PowerShell command prompt and run:

gem install slacker

Linux (Ubuntu ~>16.0.4)

The following script is based on these instructions.

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install autoconf bison build-essential libssl-dev libyaml-dev libreadline6-dev zlib1g-dev libncurses5-dev libffi-dev libgdbm3 libgdbm-dev
sudo apt-get install git

cd
git clone https://github.com/rbenv/rbenv.git ~/.rbenv
echo 'export PATH="$HOME/.rbenv/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.bashrc
echo 'eval "$(rbenv init -)"' >> ~/.bashrc
exec $SHELL
git clone https://github.com/rbenv/ruby-build.git ~/.rbenv/plugins/ruby-build
echo 'export PATH="$HOME/.rbenv/plugins/ruby-build/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.bashrc
exec $SHELL

rbenv install 2.4.0
rbenv global 2.4.0
ruby -v

wget ftp://ftp.freetds.org/pub/freetds/stable/freetds-1.00.27.tar.gz
tar -xzf freetds-1.00.27.tar.gz
cd freetds-1.00.27
./configure --prefix=/usr/local --with-tdsver=7.3
make
make install

gem install slacker

macOS

The following script is based on these instructions.

ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"
brew update
brew install rbenv ruby-build
echo 'if which rbenv > /dev/null; then eval "$(rbenv init -)"; fi' >> ~/.bash_profile
source ~/.bash_profile

rbenv install 2.4.0
rbenv global 2.4.0
ruby -v

brew install FreeTDS

gem install slacker

See Quick Start to get started with Slacker.