Re: Anyone using Ruby for scripting?
- From: John Scoles <scoles@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: mzito@xxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2010 18:58:05 -0400
On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 5:53 PM, Matthew Zito <mzito@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I will say, I ran into some stupidity on the part of the Ruby Oracle
> driver once – something about incorrectly passing in character encoding or
> something – the maturity is definitely not there like it is for perl or
> python.
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> Matt
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> *From:* Jared Still [mailto:jkstill@xxxxxxxxx]
> *Sent:* Wednesday, September 15, 2010 5:51 PM
> *To:* steve.harville@xxxxxxxxx
> *Cc:* Matthew Zito; oracle-l
> *Subject:* Re: Anyone using Ruby for scripting?
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> On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 9:33 AM, Steve Harville <steve.harville@xxxxxxxxx>
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> > In any case, trying to do team programming with perl can be annoying,
> > because you need to really get people to agree on common practices and
> > conventions, because otherwise you have six different ways of doing the
> same
> > thing, and your code turns into a mess.
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> This is why I was looking at Ruby.
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> If you're working with Oracle, Perl is the #1 choice.
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> The DBI and DBD::Oracle modules cannot be beat for Oracle access.
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> As Cary said, Perl can do anything.
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> Jared Still
> Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist
> Oracle Blog: http://jkstill.blogspot.com
> Home Page: http://jaredstill.com
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I would only add the caveat that DBD::Oracle can be a bugger to install for
some of the more exotic OSs.
One little point is that DBD::Oracle can actually make selects from tables
that use 'VARRY', 'TABLE' or 'OBJECT' cols as well as full support for the
array interface so it can do bulk inserts go very quickly.
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