ANN: Sequel 4.4.0 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, SQLAnywhere, SQLite3,
    Swift, and TinyTDS.

Sequel 4.4.0 has been released!

= New Features

  • Sequel now supports Sybase SQLAnywhere, via the sqlanywhere and
    jdbc/sqlanywhere adapters.

  • The filter by associations support now handles cases where the
    association has :conditions or a block (as long as the block
    does not rely on instance-specific behavior). This allows
    you to handle the following:

    Album.many_to_many :popular_tags, :class=>:Tag do |ds|
    ds.where{tags__popularity > 9000}
    end
    Album.where(:popular_tags=>[Tag[1], Tag[2]])

    This will return all albums whose popular_tags would include
    at least one of those two tags. Previously, the block would
    be ignored, returning albums containing one those tags even if
    the tags weren’t popular.

  • A table_select plugin has been added that changes the default
    selection for models from * to table.*. This is useful for
    people who want ActiveRecord-like behavior instead of SQL-like
    behavior, where joining tables doesn’t automatically include
    columns in the other table.

    This can fix issues where joining another table that has columns
    with the same name as columns in the model table without
    specifying an explicit selection results in model objects being
    returned where the values in the model object are the values
    from the joined table instead of the model table.

  • Dataset#offset has been added, for specifying offset separately
    from limit. Previous this was possible via:

    ds.limit(nil, offset)

    but this is a friendlier API.

  • The jdbc adapter now has support for foreign key parsing. This
    is used if there is no specific support for the underlying
    database.

  • Foreign key parsing is now supported on Oracle.

= Other Improvements

  • Association add_/remove_/remove_all_* methods for
    pg_array_to_many associations now work on unsaved model objects.

  • In the constraint_validations extension, deletes from the
    metadata table are now processed before inserts, so that dropping
    an existing constraint and readding a constraint with the same
    name now works correctly.

  • Cloning an association now copies the :eager_block option
    correctly from the source association if it was passed as
    the block to the source association method.

  • Cloning a cloned association now copies the block for the
    association.

  • The descendants method in the tree plugin no longer modifies an
    array it is iterating over.

  • The jdbc/postgresql adapter now supports PostgreSQL-specific types,
    with pretty much the same support as the postgres adapter. When
    using the pg_* extensions, the dataset will now handle the
    PostgreSQL types correctly and return instances of the correct
    Ruby classes (e.g. hstore is returned as Sequel::Postgres::HStore).

    You should no longer need to use the typecast_on_load or
    pg_typecast_on_load plugins when using model objects that use these
    types when using the jdbc/postgresql adapter.

  • Offset emulation on Oracle now handles cases where selected
    columns can’t be ordered.

  • Offset emulation on DB2 no longer automatically orders on all
    columns if the dataset itself is unordered.

  • Types containing spaces are now returning correctly when
    parsing the schema in the oracle adapter.

  • Database#tables no longer returns tables in the recycle bin on
    Oracle.

  • add_foreign_key now works correctly on HSQLDB, by splitting the
    column addition and constraint addition into two separate
    statements.

  • add_primary_key now works correctly on H2.

Thanks,
Jeremy