From: Venu9955 <venutr@...>
Date: 2008-04-01T16:10:17+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby/Informix 0.7.0

Thanks for the information,
Venu 9955

On Apr 1, 10:16 am, Gerardo Santana Gómez Garrido
<gerardo.sant...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
> ------------------
> 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