Today I was stuck with the unusually frustrating task of trying to get the ruby-odbc bridge to build on OpenBSD 3.8.

After a seemingly illogical amount of time spent fighting with extconf.rb, to recognize the ever ‘missing header files’ that could be found in /usr/local/include. These header files were sql.h, sqltypes.h, sqlext.h, odbcinst.h, and odbcinstext.h....