ANN: Sequel 3.21.0 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, SQLite3, Swift, and TinyTDS.

Sequel 3.21.0 has been released and should be available on the gem
mirrors.

= New Features

  • A tinytds adapter was added, enabling Sequel users on a C-based
    ruby running on *nix easy access to Microsoft SQL Server.
    Previously, the best way to connect to Microsoft SQL Server from
    a C-based ruby on *nix was to use the ODBC adapter with unixodbc
    and freetds. However, setting that up is nontrivial, while
    setting up tinytds is very easy.

    Note that the tinytds adapter currently requires the git master
    branch of tiny_tds, but tiny_tds 0.4.0 should include the related
    changes.

  • An association_autoreloading plugin has been added to Sequel,
    which removes stale many_to_one associations from the cache when
    the associated foreign key setter is used to change the value of
    the foreign key.

  • bin/sequel now operates more like a standard *nix utility.
    If given a file on the command line after the connection
    string, it will assume that file has ruby code and load it.
    If stdin is not a tty, it will read from stdin and execute it
    as ruby code.

    For recent Linux users, this means you can have a shebang line
    such as:

    #!/usr/bin/sequel postgres://user:pass@host/db

    to create a self contained script.

  • bin/sequel now supports -r and -I options similar to ruby’s
    -r and -I options.

  • MySQL datasets now have a calc_found_rows method that uses
    SQL_CALC_FOUND_ROWS, which provides a fast way to limit the
    number of results returned by a dataset while having an easy
    way to determine how many rows would have been returned if no
    limit was applied.

= Other Improvements

  • The Sequel::Model.plugin method can now be overridden just like
    any other method. Previously, it was the only method that
    was defined directly on the class. This allows the creation
    of plugins that can modify the plugin system itself.

  • Symbol splitting (:table__column___alias) now works correctly
    for identifiers that include characters that aren’t in [\w ].
    Among other things, this means that identifiers with accented
    characters or even kanji characters can be used with symbol
    splitting.

  • If cover? is defined, it is now used in preference to include?
    for the validates_includes/validates_inclusion_of validations.
    ruby 1.9 defines include? differently for some ranges and can
    be very slow, while cover? is similar to the 1.8 behavior of
    just checking the beginning and end of the range.

  • The bin/sequel -L option now takes effect even if the -m,
    -C, -d, or -D options are used.

  • The schema_dumper extension now recognizes the “bigint unsigned”
    type.

  • On Microsoft SQL Server, if joining to a subselect that uses a
    common table expression, that common table expression is
    promoted to the main dataset. This allows most queries to work
    correctly, but is vulnerable to issues if both the current
    dataset and the joined dataset use common table expressions with
    the same name. Unfortunately, unlike PostgreSQL, Microsoft SQL
    Server does not allow common table expressions to occur in
    subselects.

  • The NULL/NOT NULL, DEFAULT, and UNIQUE column options now
    use the proper order on H2 and Oracle, so they can now be
    used in conjunction with each other.

  • Row locks are now enabled on Oracle.

  • The join_table method on MySQL no longer ignores the block it was
    given.

  • The informix adapter now supports ruby-informix version >= 0.7.3,
    while still being backwards compatible with older versions.

  • The specs now run under both RSpec 2 and RSpec 1.

Thanks,
Jeremy