# Ruby-oci8 1.0.0-rc2

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-oci8-1-0-0-rc2/92655>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [April 22, 2007, 5:18pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-oci8-1-0-0-rc2/92655 "2007-04-22T17:18:17Z")\
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**Author:** ![kubo](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/8edcca/32.png) [@kubo](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/kubo)\
**Post date:** [April 22, 2007, 5:18pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-oci8-1-0-0-rc2/92655/1 "2007-04-22T17:18:17Z")

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ruby-oci8 1.0.0-rc2 is released. This is a Oracle module using OCI8 API.

[http://rubyforge.org/projects/ruby-oci8/](http://rubyforge.org/projects/ruby-oci8/)

What’s new.

1. support SQL\*Plus-like connect strings.  
(contributed by Oracle Corporation)

2. Add a rpm spec file.  
(contributed by Brian C.)

3. support BINARY\_FLOAT and BINADY\_DOUBLE columns.  
(This problem is reported by Duncan McCaffery.)

4. support NCLOB columns.  
(This problem is reported by Dmitry Zadvornykh.)

5. add new CLOB/NCLOB/BLOB insert method.  
(This is available on Oracle 8.1.5 or later.)

6. add an error location in C code to OCIException’s backtrace.  
This is for debug information.

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**Author:** ![kubo](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/8edcca/32.png) [@kubo](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/kubo)\
**Post date:** [April 23, 2007, 4:17pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-oci8-1-0-0-rc2/92655/2 "2007-04-23T16:17:15Z")

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Hi,

On 4/23/07, KUBO Takehiro [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

> ruby-oci8 1.0.0-rc2 is released. This is a Oracle module using OCI8 API.
> 
> [http://rubyforge.org/projects/ruby-oci8/](http://rubyforge.org/projects/ruby-oci8/)

I replaced the tar-ball at rubyforge.  
The old one had a bug when compiling with gcc-4.1.  
I have not noticed it because gcc-3.3 doesn’t complain about it.

Thanks to Eric Snyder.