From gerardo.santana at gmail.com  Tue Apr  1 01:17:20 2008
From: gerardo.santana at gmail.com (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Gerardo_Santana_G=F3mez_Garrido?=)
Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2008 23:17:20 -0600
Subject: [Ruby-informix-misc] [ANN] Ruby/Informix 0.7.0
Message-ID: <b06e22130803312217g4630d760jd6f44eecf6d5ae7d@mail.gmail.com>

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

From gerardo.santana at gmail.com  Thu Apr  3 12:25:21 2008
From: gerardo.santana at gmail.com (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Gerardo_Santana_G=F3mez_Garrido?=)
Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2008 10:25:21 -0600
Subject: [Ruby-informix-misc] Ruby/Informix 0.7.1
Message-ID: <b06e22130804030925l7308ce2fx978571650073b213@mail.gmail.com>

Unfortunately, one of the structural changes introduced in 0.7.0 was
not done right and caused that the name of Informix resources were not
unique.

This is fixed in 0.7.1, along with a documentation bug, and an
optimization that speeds up Database#columns (considered a bug also,
hence its inclusion in 0.7.1).

My apologies for any inconvenience.

--
Gerardo Santana

From gerardo.santana at gmail.com  Sat Apr 19 23:42:51 2008
From: gerardo.santana at gmail.com (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Gerardo_Santana_G=F3mez_Garrido?=)
Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2008 22:42:51 -0500
Subject: [Ruby-informix-misc] SCM moved to github
Message-ID: <b06e22130804192042y53747076sea13333f43842388@mail.gmail.com>

After evaluating git for some days and watching the development of
github.com, I have decided to move from Rubyforge's CVS to github.com.

Advantages:

* Source code is public and browsable, along with all its history.

  open this URL to browse the code:

  http://github.com/santana/ruby-informix/tree/master

* Forking and contributing is easier

  run this command to clone the repository:

  git clone git://github.com/santana/ruby-informix.git

* Changes can be followed by RSS feeds

  add this URL to your favorite RSS reader to track Ruby/Informix development:

  http://github.com/feeds/santana/commits/ruby-informix/master

-- 
Gerardo Santana