ruby-oci8 0.1.13 is released. This is a Oracle module using OCI8 API. URL:http://rubyforge.org/projects/ruby-oci8/ What's new: 1. fix a memory leak. (fixed by Nathaniel Talbott.) It is recommended to update to 0.1.13 if a program executes many queries. That's bacause 0.1.12 cause 70-byte memory leak per a query. :-< 2. ruby's DateTime support is added. (suggested by Daniel Berger.) To fetch Oracle's DATE and TIMESTAMP datatype as ruby's DateTime by default, add the following code to your code. OCI8::BindType::Mapping[OCI8::SQLT_DAT] = OCI8::BindType::DateTime OCI8::BindType::Mapping[OCI8::SQLT_TIMESTAMP] = OCI8::BindType::DateTime -- KUBO Takehiro email: kubo / jiubao.org web: http://www.jiubao.org GnuPG fingerprint = 5F7B C8EF CA16 57D0 FDE1 9F47 C001 1F93 AC08 2262