# Ruby-oci8 1.0.4 and 2.0.0

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**Created:** [February 8, 2009, 3:29pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-oci8-1-0-4-and-2-0-0/159768 "2009-02-08T15:29:30Z")\
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**Post date:** [February 8, 2009, 3:29pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-oci8-1-0-4-and-2-0-0/159768/1 "2009-02-08T15:29:30Z")

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Ruby-oci8 1.0.4 and 2.0.0 are released. These are Oracle modules using  
OCI8 API.

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

Ruby-oci8 1.0.4 is a latest stable release. The target ruby version  
is 1.8. It doesn’t work with ruby 1.9.

Ruby-oci8 2.0.0 is a unstable release. It works with ruby 1.8 and  
1.9 and has usefull features compared with ruby-oci8 1.0.4.  
Note: Active record oracle adapter doesn’t work with this.

What’s new in 1.0.4.

1. [dbi] support ruby-dbi 0.4  
(Thanks to James Cao and Peter Zingg.)

2. Rowid column data are fetched as a String by default.

3. The return type of OCI8::Cursor#rowid is changed from OCIRowid  
to String.

4. An exception is raised if a connection is used in a process which is  
different with a process to establish the connection.

5. fix for 11.1.0.7.0 instant rpm package.  
(reported by Luis P…)

6. suppress compilation warnings.  
(contributed by Daniel B.)

What’s new in 2.0.0

- See [http://ruby-oci8.rubyforge.org/en/News2\_0.html](http://ruby-oci8.rubyforge.org/en/News2_0.html)  
(The article is in progress…)