ANN: Sequel 3.15.0 Released

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Sequel is a lightweight database access toolkit for Ruby.

  • Sequel provides thread safety, connection pooling and a concise
    DSL for constructing SQL queries and table schemas.
  • Sequel includes a comprehensive ORM layer for mapping records to
    Ruby objects and handling associated records.
  • Sequel supports advanced database features such as prepared
    statements, bound variables, stored procedures, savepoints,
    two-phase commit, transaction isolation, master/slave
    configurations, and database sharding.
  • Sequel currently has adapters for ADO, Amalgalite, DataObjects,
    DB2, DBI, Firebird, Informix, JDBC, MySQL, Mysql2, ODBC, OpenBase,
    Oracle, PostgreSQL and SQLite3.

Sequel 3.15.0 has been released and should be available on the gem
mirrors.

= Performance Enhancements

  • A mysql2 adapter was added to Sequel. It offers a large (2-6x)
    performance increase over the standard mysql adapter. In order to
    use it, you need to install mysql2, and change your connection
    strings to use mysql2:// instead of mysql://.

  • Support for sequel_pg was added to the native postgres adapter,
    when pg is being used as the backend. sequel_pg also offers a
    large (2-6x) performance increase over the default row fetching
    code that the Sequel postgres adapter uses. In order to use it,
    you just need to install sequel_pg, and the postgres adapter will
    pick it up automatically.

  • Mass assignment has been made about 10x faster by caching the
    allowed setter methods in the model.

= Other Improvements

  • The following construct is now safe to use in environments that
    reload code without unloading existing constants:

    class MyModel < Sequel::Model(DB[:table])
    end

    Previously, this would raise a superclass mismatch TypeError.

  • Sequel now handles the case where both an implicit and an explicit
    table alias are given to join_table, preferring the explicit alias.
    This can happen if you are using models with aliased table names
    and eager graphing them. Previously, this would result in invalid
    SQL, with both aliases being used.

  • You can use use an aliased table for the :join_table option
    of a many_to_many association.

  • The active_model plugin now supports the final release of
    ActiveModel 3.0.0.

  • Typecasting now works correctly for attributes loaded lazily
    when using the lazy_attributes plugin.

  • The class_table_inheritance plugin now works with non-integer
    primary keys on SQLite.

  • Temporary tables are now ignored when parsing the schema on
    PostgreSQL.

  • On MySQL, an :auto_increment key with a true value is added to
    the Database#schema output hash if the related column is
    auto incrementing.

  • The mysql adapter now handles Mysql::Error exceptions raised when
    disconnecting.

  • On SQLite, emulated alter_table commands that require dropping
    the table now preserve the foreign key information, if SQLite
    foreign key support is enabled (it is by default).

  • DSN-less connections now work correctly in more cases in the
    ODBC adapter.

  • A workaround has been added for a bug in the Microsoft SQL
    Server JDBC Driver 3.0, involving it incorrectly returning a
    smallint instead of a char type for the IS_AUTOINCREMENT
    metadata value.

  • An bug in the error handling when connecting to PostgreSQL using
    the do (DataObjects) adapter has been fixed.

= Backwards Compatibility

  • The caching of allowed mass assignment methods can result in the
    incorrect exception class being raised if you manually undefine
    instance setter methods in the model class. If you do this, you
    need to clear the setter methods cache manually:

    MyModel.clear_setter_methods_cache

Thanks,
Jeremy