People still use Pascal? yes and is Growing

Free Pascal and  Delphi/ OO Pascal is growing that is what Tiobe says : if you add them both it should be in the top 10 programming languages displacing Ruby and JavaScript 

1.097+0.839=1.936

http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.html

Another more credible source is the downloads page on sourcefogre for the Lazarus IDE

http://sourceforge.net/projects/lazarus/files/stats/timeline?dates=2000-01-01+to+2012-10-13

We assist on Libre Pascal Renascence of Hacker culture that they don't care about corporate languages like C#/Java

Why ? because Pascal is Modern and insanly Fast and it does have it's own advatages compared with other languages. 

Here are advatages in using the modern Pascal http://www.freepascal.org/advantage.var

I have written my own rants here , feel free to comment

http://mapopa.blogspot.ro/2010/09/why-free-pascal-on-server-side-speed.html 

The trend is for typed and more readable languges TypeScript , Python , Ruby ...

Installing Firebird Active Record driver for Ruby

Here is how to install activerecord-fb-adapter for rails
using the the gem version

gem install activerecord-fb-adapter
Fetching: fb-0.7.*.gem (100%)
Building native extensions.  This could take a while...
Fetching: activerecord-fb-adapter-0.7.*.gem (100%)
Successfully installed fb-0.7.*
Successfully installed activerecord-fb-adapter-0.7.*
2 gems installed

That is all You can build it manually if you wish

git clone https://github.com/rowland/activerecord-fb-adapter.git
cd activerecord-fb-adapter
rake gem

ls -lah pkg/activerecord-fb-*

gem install pkg/activerecord-fb-adapter-*.gem 

Successfully installed activerecord-fb-adapter-0.7.*
1 gem installed
Successfully installed 

gem install rails 

So now we are ready to play with Rails on Fire

Update:Rails works with this driver and here is the Rails guide