From: "Gerardo Santana Gómez Garrido" <gerardo.santana@...>
Date: 2008-04-01T14:16:39+09:00
Subject: [ANN] Ruby/Informix 0.7.0

I'm pleased to announce another release of Ruby/Informix, a Ruby
library for connecting to IBM Informix.

In this release you'll find support for the INTERVAL data type, more
handy methods and more and better documentation with examples, along
with a new web site.

Web site: http://ruby-informix.rubyforge.org/
Documentation: http://ruby-informix.rubyforge.org/doc/

Some examples:

Connecting to a database:

    db = Informix.connect('stores')


Inserting records

    stmt = db.prepare('insert into state values(?, ?)')
    stmt.execute('CA', 'California')


Iterating over a table using a hash (shortcut):

    db.each_hash('select * from customers') do |cust|
      puts "#{cust['firstname']} #{cust['lastname']}"
    end



Changelog follows:

0.7.0  03/31/2008
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New features:
    * Experimental support for the INTERVAL data type:
        - year_to_month, day_to_fraction, from_months and from_seconds class
          methods for creating an Interval object
        - +@ and -@ unary operators
        - +, * and / operations available with Integer, Rational, Date, Time
          and DateTime objects
        - methods for returning the respective fields of an Interval object
          individually (years, months, days, hours, minutes and seconds)
        - to_a method for returning the fields of an Interval object as an array
        - methods for converting the Interval object to the given unit, where
          apply (to_years, to_months, to_days, to_hours, to_minutes and
          to_seconds)
        - to_s method for displaying an Interval object as an string according
          to ANSI SQL standards
        - includes Comparable
    * Database#version returns a struct with version information of the database
      server.
    * Database#each and Database#each_hash shortcut methods for declaring and
      opening a cursor in a single step.
      Contributed by Reid Morrison <reidmo at gmail>

    * Database#execute is not an alias for Database#immediate any more.
      It has become a shortcut for preparing and executing a statement in a
      single step.
    * SequentialCursor includes Enumerable
    * Ruby 1.9 compatible
    * More and better documentation

Bugs fixed:
    * The documentation for class Error was not being recognized by rdoc

Remarks:
    * Database.new deprecated in favor of Database.open
    * Database#do was removed
    * A lot of C code has been reimplemented in Ruby
    * Modules and classes have been reorganized
    * Database#execute still behaves the same, except that it can also accept
      input parameters and return at most one record. Database#immediate is
      more efficient though.
-- 
Gerardo Santana