# Ruby-postgres 0.8.0 (RC)

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-postgres-0-8-0-rc/49148>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [November 30, 2005, 6:19pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-postgres-0-8-0-rc/49148 "2005-11-30T18:19:45Z")\
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**Author:** ![davelee.com](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@davelee.com](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/davelee.com)\
**Post date:** [November 30, 2005, 6:19pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-postgres-0-8-0-rc/49148/1 "2005-11-30T18:19:45Z")

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Hello,

For the ruby-postgres users out there, I would like to announce the  
coming of a 0.8.0 release. First, some wider spread testing would be  
a good idea. The current gem is version 0.7.1.2005.11.27. This is  
basically 0.8.0 RC1 (can you do “RC1” type versioning with gems?).

What’s new:

- bug and leak fixes (get\_notify works)
- bind parameters (postgresql uses $1, $2, etc)
- Win32 binary gem
- results translated to ruby classes (old behavior of string results  
is available with PGconn::translate\_results = false)
- rows are: PGrow \< Array; behave like hash, ex row[‘id’] or row.each  
{|column,value| …} and provides to\_hash method
- rdocs (more work needed)
- simplified build
- open/connect/new with connection string or hash

New methods:

- escape\_bytea/unescape\_bytea
- on\_notice
- transaction\_status
- server\_version, protocol\_version
- lastval (only available when connected to postgresql \>= 8.1)
- oid

feel free to let me know if you find any bugs. feature requests are  
welcome.

Dave