Dear all,

A major update has been released for the Ruby driver and Ruby on Rails
adapter for Ingres.

Ruby Driver

* Update the documentation using RDoc
* Add Ingres.set_environment()
* Add the ability to set the date format for ingresdate values at
connection time
* Fix 489 - librt.so should only be used on Linux
* Use IIAPI_VCH_TYPE for converting date values to their string form
* Add support for the SQL SAVEPOINT statement
* Fix a regression where certain query would return no data
* Add support for multiple active connections
* replaced all calls to ii_allocate()/ii_reallocate() with their
ruby counterparts ALLOC_N and REALLOC_N
* Added a SQL query classifier to eliminate the need to force the
query into upper case
* Moved Unicode functionality into Unicode.c and Unicode.h
* Moved defines/typedefs/function prototypes into Ingres.h
* Added new unit tests directory
* Ingres.connect() takes an optional username/password
* Ingres.execute() now accepts a variable number of parameters,
requires query but parameter values is optional
* Re-formatted the code using astyle (astyle.sourceforge.net/)
* Added the Ruby constants VERSION, API_LEVEL and REVISION
* CM_AttrTab should be defined as an extern
* Improve Ingres library and header detection _ version 1.3.0
* Add support for the null clause used in Ingres 9.1.x (and earlier)
* Change status to Beta


ActiveRecord Adapter

* Update ingres_adapter.rb for ActiveRecord 2.3.x
* Default to "id" for the rimary_key column in ActiveRecord if no
PRIMARY KEY constraint is defined


This new release can be obtained from
http://www.ingres.com/downloads/conn...-resources.php or via one of
the following links:


* http://code.ingres.com/ingres/driver...doc/index.html
- README
* http://esd.ingres.com/product/driver...dapter__Driver
- Windows Binaries
* http://esd.ingres.com/product/driver...dapter__Driver
- Source code


Alternatively you can checkout this release from our external source
code repository:

svn checkout http://code.ingres.com/ingres/driver...res-ruby-1.4.0

See http://community.ingres.com/wiki/Con...rs_Source_Code
for more information on working with our external source repository.

Issues specific to the Ingres ActiveRecord adapter and Ruby driver
can be posted here or on the Ingres forum
http://community.ingres.com/forum/ru...rails-adapter/.
Users with an active support contract can raise an issue through their
local support centre or Service Desk. You can find more information on
using the Ingres Ruby driver and ActiveRecord bindings at http://community.ingres.com/wiki/Ruby. For online technical assistance for other Ingres products or components, and a complete list of locations, primary service hours, and telephone numbers, contact technical support at
http://ingres.com/support.

¡saludos!

grant

-- Grant Croker, Ingres Corp Ingres PHP and Ruby maintainer
http://blogs.planetingres.org/grant Thor was the God of Thunder and,
frankly, acted like it.