From: khaines@...
Date: 2007-05-19T00:51:12+09:00
Subject: Re: Who is using DBI or oci8 in production systems

On Sat, 19 May 2007, Ben Edwards wrote:

> I am doing a bit of research on accessing Oracle from Ruby.  It seems
> oc8i, either used on its own or through DBI, is the way to go.  These
> protects are both in beta and DBI seems to be fairly inactive.  So my
> question is are they ready for production systems and who is using
> them for production?

OK.

I am using DBI in many production systems and have been for a long time 
(several years).  It is fairly inactive, but if a major bug is found with 
it, I or one of the other maintainers will fix it.

That said, I have opened a DBI2 project a few days ago and am preparing to 
get that underway (not to everyone who expressed interest in helping with 
this -- I'll get in touch with all of you next week; I'm closing on a 
house today).  The aim of DBI2 is to have a dbi interface for Ruby which 
is faster, leaner, and has a ruby styling instead of being a copy of the 
Perl API.


Kirk Haines