James Edward Gray II wrote: > On May 8, 2007, at 2:20 PM, Ball, Donald A Jr (Library) wrote: > >>> I know the DBI has been handed off at least once. My >>> understanding was also that the current maintainers aren't >>> too interested in resurrecting it. I agree that it works, >>> but I'm not so sure not abandonware. I know there are some >>> very old bugs in it still not fixed, though they are minor issues. >>> >>> Sequel is looking like a pretty promising library to replace >>> the DBI, but it doesn't yet support Oracle: >>> >>> http://sequel.rubyforge.org/ >> >> Sequel seems to be more oriented towards ORM, competing with >> ActiveRecord. > > True. Of course, ActiveRecord can issue low-level queries and return > results. You don't have to use it's high-level ORM layer. That almost > makes it a viable alternative to the DBI, though some features are not > present or well exposed from the lower-level. Last I checked ActiveRecord still did not handle bind parameters, which means it's regenerating the execution plan every time it executes a query. Regards, Dan