Ruby-oci8 is a ruby interface for Oracle Database. The latest version is available for all Oracle versions after Oracle 10g including Oracle Instant Client.
Use ruby-oci8 2.0.6 for Oracle 8 or use ruby-oci8 2.1.8 for Oracle 9i.
Note that ruby 1.8 support was dropped in ruby-oci8 2.2.0. Use ruby-oci8 2.1.8 for ruby 1.8.
See {file:NEWS}.
When you have an Oracle database server to which sqlplus scott/tiger can connect
and scott user has emp table, you can select emp and print rows
as CSV by the followig one liner.
ruby -r oci8 -e "OCI8.new('scott', 'tiger').exec('select * from emp') do |r| puts r.join(','); end"
- {file:docs/install-full-client.md Install for Oracle Full Client}
- {file:docs/install-instant-client.md Install for Oracle Instant Client}
- {file:docs/install-binary-package.md Install Binary Package}
- {file:docs/install-on-osx.md Install on OS X}
- {file:docs/report-installation-issue.md Report Installation Issues}
- The issues page on github
- {file:docs/number-type-mapping.md Number Type Mapping between Oracle and Ruby}
- {file:docs/timeout-parameters.md Timeout Parameters}
- {file:docs/conflicts-local-connections-and-processes.md Conflicts between Local Connections and Child Process Handling on Unix}
- {file:docs/hanging-after-inactivity.md Hanging After a Long Period of Inactivity}
- {file:docs/bind-array-to-in_cond.md Bind an Array to IN-condition}
- {file:docs/ldap-auth-and-function-interposition.md LDAP Authentication and Function Interposition}
- {file:COPYING 2-clause BSD-style license} from ruby-oci8 2.1.3
- {file:COPYING_old old Ruby license} until 2.1.2