With the increasing interest in Ruby on Rails from companies in the enterprise world, some observers have posed questions about its suitability when it comes to the demanding requirements in this arena. One issue that some have called attention to is that ActiveRecord, Rails' Object-Relational Mapper (ORM), doesn't use prepared statements—or at least it didn't until now. With the latest release of DB2® on Rails, parameterized queries are automatically available and bring with them important performance and security benefits to Rails applications.