Ruby/Informix is a Ruby extension for connecting to IBM Informix
Dynamic Server, written in ESQL/C.
It is being developed and heavily tested on Solaris/SPARC. It has been
reported to work on Linux Fedora, SuSE Linux and Windows XP.
On Windows XP use Ruby 1.8.4.
Full changelog since initial release follows:
0.2.0 04/24/2006
New features:
* Methods added to SequentialCursor:
- fetch_hash_many(n), fetch_hash_all
- each_by(n), each_hash_by(n)
- fetch!, fetch_hash!, each!, each_hash!
where !-methods reduce object creation by reusing the same
result
object in each call
Remarks:
* fetchmany and fetchall methods now return [] instead of nil
when
no records are found
Bugs fixed:
* When freeing a cursor that was opened but never used, a
segmentation
fault occurred
0.1.0 04/10/2006
Features:
* Support for all built-in data types, except INTERVAL
* immediate statements
* prepared statements
* select cursors and bulk inserts (insert cursors)
* transactions
* #columns method for retrieving column information
* rows retrieved as arrays or hashes
* IO-based and IO-like (StringIO) objects for storing a
BYTE/TEXT
column, and retrieved as a String object
* NULL, DATE and DATETIME mapped to nil, Date and Time objects
and
viceversa
* #drop method for freeing Informix resources immediatly
* source code documented with RDoc
Caveats:
* INTERVAL not supported
* cursors must be closed before reopening them
* only one open connection at a time is supported
Home page: http://ruby-informix.rubyforge.org
Download from: http://rubyforge.org/projects/ruby-informix/