From: Brian Candler <B.Candler@...>
Date: 2007-05-05T05:12:25+09:00
Subject: Re: Witch Oracle library should I use

On Sat, May 05, 2007 at 04:37:34AM +0900, Ben Edwards wrote:
> Thanks for this.  Have been trying Ruby/OCI8 and it seems to work.
> Only thing is when it fetches row it is referenced as an array
> (row[0], row[1]...).  Is there a way of referencing the column names
> (row["username"]...).

You could steal some code from ActiveRecord's Oracle connection adaptor.
When you call Foo.connection.select_all(...) in ActiveRecord, it returns
an array of
[{colname=>value, colname=>value},
 {colname=>value, colname=>value},
...]

Or I have a vague recollection that maybe ruby-dbi will do this for you.