Module: Informix

Defined in:

lib/informix/interval.rb,
lib/informix.rb,
lib/informix/seqcursor.rb,
lib/informix/exceptions.rb,
lib/informix/scrollcursor.rb,
ext/informixc.c

Overview

-- The following code is a translation of the original C code written by Edwin M. Fine ++

Defined Under Namespace

Modules: Cursor, Interval Classes: CursorBase, DataError, Database, DatabaseError, Error, ExcInfo, InsertCursor, IntegrityError, InterfaceError, InternalError, IntervalBase, IntervalDTS, IntervalYTM, NotSupportedError, OperationalError, ProgrammingError, ScrollCursor, SequentialCursor, Slob, Statement, Warning

Constant Summary

VERSION =

"0.8.0"

Class Method Summary

• .connect(dbname, user = nil, password = nil, &block) ⇒ Object

  Shortcut to create a Database object connected to dbname as user with password.

• .version ⇒ Object

  Returns the version of this Ruby/Informix driver.

Class Method Details

.connect(dbname, user = nil, password = nil, &block) ⇒ Object

Shortcut to create a Database object connected to dbname as user with password. If these are not given, connects to dbname as the current user.

The Database object is passed to the block if it's given, and automatically closes the connection when the block terminates, returning the value of the block.

Examples:

Connecting to stores with our current credentials:

db = Informix.connect('stores')

Same thing, using a block and using a different server. The connection is closed automatically when the block terminates. result = Informix.connect('stores@server_shm') do |db| # do something with db # the last expression evaluated will be returned done

# File 'lib/informix.rb', line 57

def self.connect(dbname, user = nil, password = nil, &block)
  Database.open(dbname, user, password, &block)
end

.version ⇒ Object

Returns the version of this Ruby/Informix driver. Note that this is NOT the Informix database version.

Informix.version => string

# File 'lib/informix.rb', line 65

def self.version
  VERSION
end