From: James Edward Gray II <james@...>
Date: 2007-05-09T04:03:53+09:00
Subject: Re: Witch Oracle library should I use

On May 8, 2007, at 1:53 PM, khaines@enigo.com wrote:

> Ben Edwards wrote:
>
>>> > ruby-dbi seems like a good idea but its Beta and there hasn't  
>>> been a
>>> > release for over a year.  Don't think the folks here will trust  
>>> it in
>>> > a production environment.
>
> Don't read too much into that "beta" label nor the last release.   
> I've been using ruby-dbi in many, many production apps for years.   
> It's fine. And releases aren't frequent because, while DBI could  
> certainly be improved, it is also stable and works.  If it's not  
> broken.....

I know the DBI has been handed off at least once.  My understanding  
was also that the current maintainers aren't too interested in  
resurrecting it.  I agree that it works, but I'm not so sure not  
abandonware.  I know there are some very old bugs in it still not  
fixed, though they are minor issues.

Sequel is looking like a pretty promising library to replace the DBI,  
but it doesn't yet support Oracle:

http://sequel.rubyforge.org/

James Edward Gray II