From: Jim Cain <list@...>
Date: 2003-06-27T00:36:44+09:00
Subject: Re: DBD for Oracle9i

Michael Neumann wrote:
> Jim Cain wrote:
> 
>> Hi all. I was looking for a Ruby interface to 9i that would handle all 
>> the latest features, including collections, object navigation and so 
>> on, but I didn't find one. So over the weekend I started writing my 
>> own. I've coded the basic functionality as a C extention library that 
>> uses OCI 9. It connects and executes, and it will fetch the common 
>> Oracle types. Now I need to add all the features I want and then put a 
>> nice DBI face on it.
> 
> 
> http://www.jiubao.org/ruby-oci8/index.en.html
> 
> Why not extend this for 9i functionalities?
> 
> Regards,
> 
>  Michael

Actually I did read through a lot of that code to figure the Ruby way of 
doing things. I decided to write mine from scratch mostly because I 
thought it would be a good learning experience. I've heard about Ruby 
for a while but just read the documentation for the first time last 
Thursday (19 June). On Friday I started writing my Oracle9i driver.

As of yesterday it supports all the functionality required by the DBI. 
Now I just need to add all the really cool stuff.

BTW I wrote a similar library for Oracle8 in C++ a few years ago, but I 
haven't touched that code in a while. It's at http://jimcain.us/orapp/ 
if anyone is interested.

Cheers,
Jim