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.

What's new

See 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"

If you install a ruby-oci8 gem package, you may need to add -rubygems before -r oci8.

Documentation

• http://rubydoc.info/gems/ruby-oci8/

Installation

• Install for Oracle Full Client
• Install for Oracle Instant Client
• Install Binary Package
• Install on OS X

Report issues

• report-installation-issue
• The issues page on github

License

• 2-clause BSD-style license from ruby-oci8 2.1.3
• old Ruby license until 2.1.2