Ruby-oci8 1.0.6 and 2.0.2 are released. These are Oracle modules using
OCI8 API.
http://rubyforge.org/projects/ruby-oci8/
Ruby-oci8 1.0.6 is a latest stable release. The target ruby version
is 1.8. It doesn’t work with ruby 1.9.
Ruby-oci8 2.0.2 is an unstable release. It works on both ruby 1.8 and
1.9 and has usefull features compared with ruby-oci8 1.0.6.
Note: Active record oracle adapter doesn’t work with 2.0.2.
Use Active record oracle_enhanced adapter instead.
http://rubyforge.org/projects/oracle-enhanced
What’s new in 1.0.6.
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fix a problem when compiling for Oracle 8.0.
(reported by Axel Reinhold as a ruby-oci8 2.0 issue) -
[dbi] fix to pass a newly added sanity check in dbi 0.4.1.
(reported by Dirk H. as a ruby-oci8 2.0 issue) -
[dbi] fix dbh#columns for Oracle 8.1 or lower.
The data dictionary all_constraints doesn’t have index_name
column on Oracle 8i. Rewrite DBI::DBD::OCI8::Database#columns
by using all_cons_columns.
(backport from ruby-oci8 trunk)
What’s new in 2.0.2.
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add new methods
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OCI8#select_one(sql, *bindvars) → first_row
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OCI8#ping → true or false
Verifies that the Oracle connection is alive.
OCI8#ping also can be used to flush all the pending OCI
client-side calls to the server if any exist. -
OCI8#client_identifier = client_id
Look at the following link to know what is the client identifier.
http://it.toolbox.com/blogs/database-solutions/oracle-session-tracing-part-i-16356Note that the specified identifier doesn’t change the v$session
immediately. It is done by the next network round trip
such as OCI8#exec or OCI8#ping.
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-
fix problems when compiling with Oracle 9.2 and 8.0.
(reported by Axel Reinhold) -
[dbi] fix to pass a newly added sanity check in dbi 0.4.1.
(reported by Dirk H.) -
fix an error when executing “select NULL from dual”.
http://rubyforge.org/forum/forum.php?thread_id=32468&forum_id=1078
(contributed by Raimonds Simanovskis) -
[ruby 1.9] fix OCI8::BLOB to read/write binary. Prior to 2.0.1,
it was treated as text tagged with NLS_LANG encoding. -
[ruby 1.9] fix to bind string data by the length got from
String#bytesize
converted to OCI8.encoding, not by String#size.