What is ruby-oci8

Ruby-oci8 is a ruby interface for Oracle Database. The latest version is available for all Oracle versions after Oracle 9i including Oracle Instant Client.

If you need to use Oracle 8, use ruby-oci8 2.0.6.

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"

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

• {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}

Report issues

• {file:docs/report-installation-issue.md}
• 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