From: KUBO Takehiro <kubo@...>
Date: 2007-04-23T00:17:26+09:00
Subject: [ANN] ruby-oci8 1.0.0-rc2

ruby-oci8 1.0.0-rc2 is released. This is a Oracle module using OCI8 API.

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

What's new.

1. support SQL*Plus-like connect strings.
   (contributed by Oracle Corporation)

     require 'oci8'
     conn = OCI8.new('username/password@tns_name')
     # instead of OCI8.new('username', 'password', 'tns_name')

2. Add a rpm spec file.
   (contributed by Brian Candler)

     rpmbuild -tb ruby-oci8-x.y.z.tar.gz

     /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386/ruby-oci8-x.y.z-1.i386.rpm

3. support BINARY_FLOAT and BINADY_DOUBLE columns.
   (This problem is reported by Duncan McCaffery.)

4. support NCLOB columns.
   (This problem is reported by Dmitry Zadvornykh.)

     cursor = conn.exec('select nclob_column from nclob_table')
     cursor.fetch # => [ instance of OCI8::NCLOB ]

5. add new CLOB/NCLOB/BLOB insert method.
   (This is available on Oracle 8.1.5 or later.)

     cursor = conn.parse("INSERT INTO clob_table VALUES (:1)")
     cursor.bind_param(1, OCI8::CLOB.new(conn, lob_data))
     cursor.exec

     cursor = conn.parse("INSERT INTO nclob_table VALUES (:1)")
     cursor.exec(OCI8::NCLOB.new(conn, lob_data))

     conn.exec("INSERT INTO blob_table VALUES (:1)",
               OCI8::BLOB.new(conn, lob_data))

   This is added to insert CLOB as a SDO_GEOMETRY's parameter
   to solve a problem reported by Pete Schwamb.

6. add an error location in C code to OCIException's backtrace.
   This is for debug information.