[ANN] ruby-oci8 1.0.1

[KUBO Takehiro]

ruby-oci8 1.0.1 is released. This is a Oracle module using OCI8 API.

http://rubyforge.org/projects/ruby-oci8/

ruby-oci8-unstalbe 2.0-svn-262 is also released.
This will be ruby-oci8 2.0 in future. Many features are added.
Some of them are contributed by Oracle Corporation.
Excuse me for not writing changes between 1.0 and 2.0.

What's new in ruby-oci8 1.0.1.

1. [SPEC CHANGE] OCI8#exec and OCI8::Cursor#exec's return value is changed
for statement except select, insert, update and delete statement.

It had been true. But now it is the number of rows processed for all
non-select statements.

For example:

# 1.0.0 or before
conn = OCI8.new('user/pass')
conn.exec('rename FOO_TABLE to BAR_TABLE') # => true

# 1.0.1
conn = OCI8.new('user/pass')
conn.exec('rename FOO_TABLE to BAR_TABLE') # => 0

2. fix a bug that OraDate.new made a core dump on x86_64 linux.
(reported by Alun Eyre)

3. fix OCI8#non_blocking = false problem.
Once the connection became non-bocking mode, it could
not be reset to blocking mode. Now it can be reset.
(reported by Cagdas Gerede)

4. support cursors in a result set.
(contributed by Randy Gordon)

For example:
conn = OCI8.new('ruby/oci8')
sql = 'SELECT CURSOR(SELECT * FROM foo where foo.c1 = bar.c1 ) FROM bar'
conn.exec(sql) do |row|
cursor_in_result_set = row[0]
cursor_in_result_set.fetch do |row|
puts row.join(',')
end
end

5. fix oraconf.rb for official x86_64 linux rpms.
(contributed by Pat)

 

[Jesse Hu]

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Thanks Kubo.

5. fix oraconf.rb for official x86_64 linux rpms.

(contributed by Pat)

And is the official i386/x86_64 linux Ruby-OCI8 rpms available?

ruby-oci8 1.0.1 is released. This is a Oracle module using OCI8 API.

http://rubyforge.org/projects/ruby-oci8/

ruby-oci8-unstalbe 2.0-svn-262 is also released.
This will be ruby-oci8 2.0 in future. Many features are added.
Some of them are contributed by Oracle Corporation.
Excuse me for not writing changes between 1.0 and 2.0.

What's new in ruby-oci8 1.0.1.

1. [SPEC CHANGE] OCI8#exec and OCI8::Cursor#exec's return value is changed
for statement except select, insert, update and delete statement.

It had been true. But now it is the number of rows processed for all
non-select statements.

For example:

# 1.0.0 or before
conn = OCI8.new('user/pass')
conn.exec('rename FOO_TABLE to BAR_TABLE') # => true

# 1.0.1
conn = OCI8.new('user/pass')
conn.exec('rename FOO_TABLE to BAR_TABLE') # => 0

2. fix a bug that OraDate.new made a core dump on x86_64 linux.
(reported by Alun Eyre)

3. fix OCI8#non_blocking = false problem.
Once the connection became non-bocking mode, it could
not be reset to blocking mode. Now it can be reset.
(reported by Cagdas Gerede)

4. support cursors in a result set.
(contributed by Randy Gordon)

For example:
conn = OCI8.new('ruby/oci8')
sql = 'SELECT CURSOR(SELECT * FROM foo where foo.c1 = bar.c1 ) FROM
bar'
conn.exec(sql) do |row|
cursor_in_result_set = row[0]
cursor_in_result_set.fetch do |row|
puts row.join(',')
end
end

5. fix oraconf.rb for official x86_64 linux rpms.
(contributed by Pat)

 

[KUBO Takehiro]

Hi Jesse,

And is the official i386/x86_64 linux Ruby-OCI8 rpms available?

No. I don't know how to make binary gems for mswin32.
Is there any article which explains the way?

 

[KUBO Takehiro]

Hi,

Hi Jesse,



No. I don't know how to make binary gems for mswin32.

I misread 'rpms' as 'gems'. But same answer.
No official ruby-oci8 rpms will be made because the compiled binary
may not work on other distributions and with different oracle versions.
It is a task of distributor's package managers.

This means "official x86_64 linux instant client rpms."

 

[Gerardo Santana Gómez Garrido]

Hi Jesse,



No. I don't know how to make binary gems for mswin32.
Is there any article which explains the way?

Here it is what I do. If anyone have a better procedure, I'd like to know.

I use a Rakefile for building gems:
http://github.com/santana/ruby-informix/tree/master/Rakefile

But when building a binary gem, I need to add

s.platform = Gem:latform::CURRENT

to the gemspec, which adds the platform name to the name of the gem. I
also add the shared object to the list of files.

Finally I build the extension and run rake package to create the
distribution files.