Forum: Ruby ruby-oci8 2.1.3

Ruby-oci8 2.1.3 is released. This is the Oracle module using OCI8 API.

 http://rubyforge.org/projects/ruby-oci8/

New Features
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### {OCI8::Cursor#statement}

It returns the text of the SQL statement prepared in the cursor.

    cursor = conn.parse("select * from country where country_code = 
'ja'")
    cursor.statement # => "select * from country where country_code = 
'ja'"

See: [github issue #16](https://github.com/kubo/ruby-oci8/issues/16)

Specification changes
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### License was changed to 2-clause BSD-style license.

The former license was same with old ruby (<= 1.9.2) license.

### Oracle object type's DATE field type

Ruby-oci8 had returned a DateTime object when Oracle object type's DATE
field type was accessed. Now it returns a Time object.

Fixed Issues
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-   Fix to work with procedures and functions that return temporary 
lobs.
    See: [github issue #13](https://github.com/kubo/ruby-oci8/issues/13)

    (contributed by timon)

-   Fix Oracle object type's DATE field tests.
    See: [github issue #17](https://github.com/kubo/ruby-oci8/issues/17)

    (reported by Yasuo Honda)

-   Fix a sequence test failure on Oracle 11gR2.
    See: [github issue #18](https://github.com/kubo/ruby-oci8/issues/18)

    (reported by Yasuo Honda)

-   Include COPYING files.
    See: [github issue #19](https://github.com/kubo/ruby-oci8/issues/19)

    (requested by Johannes Weberhofer)

-   Fix SEGV when a temporary LOB is GCed while another LOB is read.
    See: [github issue #20](https://github.com/kubo/ruby-oci8/issues/20)

    (reported by techsplicer)

-   Fix #<NoMethodError: undefined method `timezone' for Time:Class>
    when ruby is less than 1.9.2 and an object type's time attribute is
accessed.