From: Kent Sibilev <ksibilev@...>
Date: 2004-07-17T02:48:16+09:00
Subject: Re: scripting language (fwd)

Long time ago I wrote a oracle client module using Ruby/DL which 
connected to oracle via Oracle OCI API. There was also a DBD wrapper 
for this module, so I could use it via DBI interface. So if you do not 
have a compiler installed but you have Oracle client installed, you can 
use this module. At that time I tested it only on my WinXP box, and 
since this is the pure ruby module there are some performance drawbacks 
as well.

URL: http://rubyist.homeunix.net/rubyoci-0.1.tar.gz

Cheers,
Kent.

On Jul 15, 2004, at 6:58 PM, Jamis Buck wrote:

> Gavin Sinclair wrote:
>> On Friday, July 16, 2004, 5:25:47 AM, Jamis wrote:
>>> What I would like is to remove the Oracle client as a dependency, 
>>> just
>>> as the Oracle JDBC (thin) client does. The thin (as opposed to the 
>>> oci)
>>> Oracle JDBC client implements in pure Java the network protocols that
>>> communicate with the Oracle database server.
>>> This means that the thin client will ultimately be less responsive 
>>> than
>>> the oci client, but its GREAT for working on your own machine.
>>> I'm hoping that something like this can be written for Ruby, in Ruby,
>>> without the need to create an extension module in C to bridge into 
>>> the
>>> Oracle OCI stuff (which is what the current ruby oracle module does).
>> Couldn't the thin client be written in C and then wrapped in every
>> scripting language imaginable?  If so, *is* there an Oracle thin
>> client library written in C already?
>> Gavin
>
> The client *could*, of course be written in C. To my knowledge, such 
> an implementation does not exist. (Might be a neat project, in fact.)
>
> However, that still doesn't address the OP's original concern: lack of 
> a compiler made a C extension impractical. A *pure Ruby* 
> implementation would still be most convenient, though not as 
> efficient.
>
> -- 
> Jamis Buck
> jgb3@email.byu.edu
> http://www.jamisbuck.org/jamis
>
> "I use octal until I get to 8, and then I switch to decimal."
>