From: KUBO Takehiro <kubo@...>
Date: 2008-04-27T22:58:19+09:00
Subject: [ANN] ruby-oci8 1.0.1

ruby-oci8 1.0.1 is released. This is a Oracle module using OCI8 API.

  http://rubyforge.org/projects/ruby-oci8/

ruby-oci8-unstalbe 2.0-svn-262 is also released.
This will be ruby-oci8 2.0 in future. Many features are added.
Some of them are contributed by Oracle Corporation.
Excuse me for not writing changes between 1.0 and 2.0.

What's new in ruby-oci8 1.0.1.

1. [SPEC CHANGE] OCI8#exec and OCI8::Cursor#exec's return value is changed
   for statement except select, insert, update and delete statement.

   It had been true. But now it is the number of rows processed for all
   non-select statements.

   For example:

     # 1.0.0 or before
     conn = OCI8.new('user/pass')
     conn.exec('rename FOO_TABLE to BAR_TABLE') # => true

     # 1.0.1
     conn = OCI8.new('user/pass')
     conn.exec('rename FOO_TABLE to BAR_TABLE') # => 0

2. fix a bug that OraDate.new made a core dump on x86_64 linux.
   (reported by Alun Eyre)

3. fix OCI8#non_blocking = false problem.
   Once the connection became non-bocking mode, it could
   not be reset to blocking mode. Now it can be reset.
   (reported by Cagdas Gerede)

4. support cursors in a result set.
   (contributed by Randy Gordon)

   For example:
      conn = OCI8.new('ruby/oci8')
      sql = 'SELECT CURSOR(SELECT * FROM foo where foo.c1 = bar.c1 ) FROM bar'
      conn.exec(sql) do |row|
        cursor_in_result_set = row[0]
        cursor_in_result_set.fetch do |row|
          puts row.join(',')
        end
      end

5. fix oraconf.rb for official x86_64 linux rpms.
   (contributed by Pat)