On Nov 26, 2007 2:37 PM, Sharon Rosner <ciconia / gmail.com> wrote:
> Sequel version 0.4.1 has just been released. This release includes
> error-handling in worker threads, support for DISTINCT ON clauses,
> better support for database access using DBI and automatic adapter
> loading.
>
> Sequel is a lightweight ORM library for Ruby. Sequel provides thread
> safety, connection pooling and a simple and expressive API for
> constructing database queries and table schemas.
>
> === Changes in this release
>
> * Improved error-handling for worker threads. Errors are saved to an
> array and are accessible through #errors (#91).
>
>   w = Sequel::Worker.new
>   w.add {raise "blah blah"}
>   w.join
>   w.errors.first.message #=> "blah blah"
>
> * Dataset#uniq/distinct can now accept a column list for DISTINCT ON
> clauses.
>
>   DB[:items].distinct(:category, price).sql
>   #=> "SELECT DISTINCT ON (category, price) * FROM items"
>
> * Added support for dbi-xxx URI schemes (#86).
>
>   DB = Sequel.open 'dbi-pg://localhost/mydb'
>
> * Put adapter files in lib/sequel/adapters. Requiring sequel/<adapter>
> is now deprecated. Users can now just require 'sequel' and adapters
> are automagically loaded (#93).
>
> * Reorganized lib directory structure.
>
> * Fixed problem in Database#uri where setting the password would raise
> an error (#87).
>
> * Improved Dataset#insert_sql to correctly handle string keys (#92).
>
> * Fixed Model.all.
>
> * Fixed literalization of strings with escape sequences in postgres
> adapter (#90).
>
> * Added support for literalizing BigDecimal values (#89).
>
> * Fixed column qualification for joined datasets (thanks Christian).
>
> * Implemented experimental informix adapter.

Thanks Sharon. I'll give this a try and let you know.

I just wonder why the gem requires hoe.

-- 
Gerardo Santana