What is ruby-oci8

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-2.1.8 for ruby 1.8.

What’s new

See {file:NEWS}.

Sample one-liner

Connect to scott/tiger, select emp and print as CSV format.

ruby -r oci8 -e “OCI8.new(‘scott’, ‘tiger’).exec(‘select * from emp’) do |r| puts r.join(‘,’); end”

Homepage

• http://www.rubydoc.info/github/kubo/ruby-oci8

Installation

• {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}

Report issues

• {file:docs/report-installation-issue.md Report Installation Issues}
• The issues page on github

License

• {file:COPYING 2-clause BSD-style license} from ruby-oci8 2.1.3
• {file:COPYING_old old Ruby license} until 2.1.2