ANN: Sequel 3.40.0 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, CUBRID,
    DataObjects, DB2, DBI, Firebird, IBM_DB, Informix, JDBC, MySQL,
    Mysql2, ODBC, OpenBase, Oracle, PostgreSQL, SQLite3, Swift, and
    TinyTDS.

Sequel 3.40.0 has been released and should be available on the gem
mirrors.

= New Features

  • Sequel now has vastly improved support for Microsoft Access.

  • Sequel now supports the CUBRID database, with a cubrid adapter
    that uses the cubrid gem, and a jdbc/cubrid adapter for accessing
    CUBRID via JDBC on JRuby.

  • The association_pks plugin now supports composite keys.

  • Database#transaction now accepts a :disconnect=>:retry option,
    in which case it will automatically retry the block if it
    detects a disconnection. This is potentially dangerous, and
    should only be used if the entire block is idempotent. There
    is also no checking against an infinite retry loop.

  • SQL::CaseExpression#with_merged_expression has been added, for
    converting a CaseExpression with an associated expression to
    one without an associated expression, by merging the expression
    into each condition.

= Other Improvements

  • Sequel now quotes arguments/columns in common table expressions.

  • Sequel now handles nil values correctly in the pg_row extension.

  • Sequel::Postgres::HStore instances can now be marshalled.

  • Sequel now uses clob for String :text=>true types on databases that
    don’t support a text type.

  • On PostgreSQL, Sequel now quotes channel identifier names when using
    LISTEN/NOTIFY.

  • On PostgreSQL, Sequel now correctly handles the case where named
    type conversion procs have been added before the Database object is
    instantiated.

  • On DB2, Sequel now explicitly sets NOT NULL for unique constraint
    columns instead of foreign key columns. DB2 does not allow columns
    in unique constraints to be NULL, but does allow foreign key columns
    to be NULL.

  • In the oracle adapter, clob values are now returned as ruby strings
    upon retrieval.

  • Sequel now detects more types of disconnections in the postgres,
    mysql, and mysql2 adapters.

  • If a database provides a default column value that isn’t a ruby
    string, it is used directly as the ruby default, instead of causing
    the schema parsing to fail.

= Backwards Compatibility

  • Code using Sequel’s oracle adapter that expected clob values to be
    returned as OCI8::CLOB instances needs to be modified to work with
    ruby strings.

  • Because Sequel now quotes column names in common table expressions,
    those names are now case sensitive, which could break certain poorly
    coded queries. Similar issues exist with the quoting of channel
    identifier names in LISTEN/NOTIFY on PostgreSQL.

  • The private Database#requires_return_generated_keys? method
    has been removed from the jdbc adapter. Custom jdbc subadapters
    relying on this method should override the private
    Database#execute_statement_insert method instead to ensure that
    RETURN_GENERATED_KEYS is used for insert statements.

  • The private Dataset#argument_list and #argument_list_append methods
    have been removed.

Thanks,
Jeremy