From: Michael Neumann <neumann@...>
Date: 2001-11-15T21:09:27+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:25255] [ANN] Ruby/DBI 0.0.11

Hi,

I just released Ruby/DBI 0.0.11.

Ruby/DBI (RAA entry Library -> Database -> Ruby/DBI) is a database
independet interface, similar to Perl's DBI.
It currently supports the following databases:

* ADO (ActiveX Data Objects)
* IBM DB2 UDB
* InterBase
* mSQL
* MySQL
* ODBC
* Oracle 
* PostgreSQL
* Proxy/Server (TCP/IP)
* SQLite
* SQLRelay

MySql and PostgreSQL are tested best and have the most functionallity. 


Changes between 0.0.10 and 0.0.11:
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* New database driver for SQLite (embedded SQL database)
* New database driver for SQLRelay
* Mysql: Fixed quoting for DBI::Binary and Strings 
* PostgreSQL: 
  - improved Database#ping
  - Database specific attribute: pg_client_encoding
  - Database specific functions: blob_import, blob_export, blob_create,
    blob_open, blob_unlink, blob_read
  - You can now easily insert DBI::Binary (BLOBs) into a table. 
    DBI calls automatically imports the large object and inserts the
    returned OID into the column. 
* DB2: 
  - supply method Database#do
  - now works with parameter markers  
* Improved sqlsh.rb: added commands \dt (describe table)
  \s (short for select * from tablename) and \pl (page length).


Ruby/DBI's homepage is at:

  http://www.ruby-projects.org/dbi 

You can subscribe to the Ruby/DBI mailing list at:

  http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ruby-dbi-talk


Regards,

  Michael

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Michael Neumann
merlin.zwo InfoDesign GmbH
http://www.merlin-zwo.de