This post originated from an RSS feed registered with Ruby Buzz by Leon Katsnelson. Original Post: IBM_DB 1.0.2 released Feed Title: DB2 on Rails Feed URL: http://feeds.feedburner.com/DB2OnRails Feed Description: Agile development for enterprises large and small Latest Ruby Buzz Posts Latest Ruby Buzz Posts by Leon Katsnelson Latest Posts From DB2 on Rails

A few days ago the IBM API team released an update for the Ruby driver and Rails adapter for IBM databases. This specific release of the IBM_DB gem (1.0.2) fixes a couple of LOB related bugs that were recently found, and adds support for the timeout parameter for ActiveRecord. In practice this means that you’ll now be able to specify a timeout value within your config/database.yml file, which expresses the amount of time in milliseconds before an attempt to establish a connection with DB2 timeouts.

For example, the development section of said configuration file may look like this:

development:
 adapter: ibm_db
 username: db2inst1
 password: secret
 database: db_name
 schema: myapp
 timeout: 5000

In this case, the timeout for each connection was 5 seconds (5000 milliseconds).

We hope you’ll find this release useful. Give it a try, and please report any issues, however unlikely they may be, in the RubyForge forum.