On 04/05/07, Ulf Hellströí <uhellstr / mac.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm new on this mailing list. My name is Ulf , lives in Sweden and > been developing for Oracle for many, many years. Used to work for > Oracle for 10 years. > I've been studying and learning Ruby for aroune 2 months now and has > done some work with Ruby and Oracle. > As suggested i would defenly say go for Ruby/OCI8 > > There are some good introductions on how to use Ruby with Oracle on > OTN (Oracle Technology Network) > > See the following links: > > http://www.oracle.com/technology/pub/articles/marx-ruby.html > http://www.oracle.com/technology/pub/articles/tate-activeerecord.html > http://www.oracle.com/technology/pub/articles/haefel-oracle-ruby.html > http://www.oracle.com/technology/pub/articles/saternos-rails.html Thanks for this. Have been trying Ruby/OCI8 and it seems to work. Only thing is when it fetches row it is referenced as an array (row[0], row[1]...). Is there a way of referencing the column names (row["username"]...). Ben > Kindly Rgds > /Ulf > Ruby/OCI8 > > On 4 maj 2007, at 20.38, Brian Candler wrote: > > > On Sat, May 05, 2007 at 12:27:13AM +0900, Ben Edwards wrote: > >> Have had a look on rubyforge and done a little looking around but not > >> totaly sure which ruby oracle library's I should use. > >> > >> I am connecting to a 10g database. > >> > >> Ruby9i and Ruby/OCI8 seem to be the contenders, or is there > >> something else. > >> > >> What would people recommend? > > > > ruby-oci8. It's been around for a long time, and it works well. > > It's the API > > used by ActiveRecord's Oracle adaptor, and it also comes with a DBD > > for use > > with ruby-dbi. I'm using it with Oracle 10g now. > > > > I've never seen or used Ruby9i though. > > > > > -- Ben Edwards - Bristol, UK If you have a problem emailing me use http://www.gurtlush.org.uk/profiles.php?uid=4 (email address this email is sent from may be defunct)