I wanted to announce that ActiveRecord Oracle enhanced adapter
(which initially was fork of original Oracle adapter for MRI) now also
works on JRuby / JDBC as well as on Ruby 1.9.1 -
http://blog.rayapps.com/2009/03/23/activerecord-oracle-enhanced-adapter-also-on-jruby-and-ruby-19/
Why Oracle enhanced adapter might be better alternative to standard JDBC
adapter for JRuby on Rails on Oracle applications?
- It wil be less risky to develop application on one platform (e.g. MRI
or
Ruby/YARV 1.9) and deploy on another (e.g. JRuby) as you will use the
same
adapter which generates the same SQL statements - Oracle enhanced adapter has many additional features (http://
wiki.github.com/rsim/oracle-enhanced/usage) that are especially
usefuwhen
using Rails on top of legacy Oracle database schemas - Oracle enhanced adapter is passing all ActiveRecord unit tests (after
some
patching of them to disable tests that generate Oracle incompatible SQL) - It is written just in Ruby and is specialized just for Oracle
and therefore will be easier to understand in case of troubleshooting
Please try it out and give your feedback either here or at Oracle
enhanced
adapter discussion group
(http://groups.google.com/group/oracle-enhanced)
Raimonds
