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Re:Announcing SQL Server on Linux by hamitron on Monday March 07, 2016 @04:24PM (#11241811)
I too am excited, as I was faced with the challenge of building a rails app with a SQL server database backend. Sure there is a solid adapter, but it wasn't perfect, and we couldn't effectively run tests on it.
Re:Announcing SQL Server on Linux by bdcravens on Monday March 07, 2016 @04:55PM (#11242057)
It won't be generally available until mid-2017.

I've built a Rails app atop a large legacy SQL Server, and I really haven't run into anything that wouldn't run. (aside from `rails db`)