New version 2.5.6 of the ibm_db gem is now available.

*) This Release of the gem fixes some minor bugs raised on the forum, reported through mail and those found internally

*) This release now ships a separate gem for Mingw so that now issuing a gem install from a mingw Ruby version would automatically pull the right gem with binaries for windows (mingW) platform.

*) Starting with this release ibm_db windows users need not worry of selecting gem for Ruby-1.8 or Ruby-1.9 as the gem will resolve and load the right binary at runtime based on your Ruby version.

To use the gem with Rails-3.0.3 and Rails-3.0.4 you will need to patch Arel with the patch available at https://gist.github.com/814491 , We will work with the Arel team to get this patch in so that from next release of Arel onwards ibm_db users will need not have to patch Arel.

Check the change log for more info

DB2 Express-C --> https://www14.software.ibm.com/webapp/iwm/web/preLogin.do?source=swg-db2expressc&S_CMP=ECDDWW01&S_TACT=ACDB206

IBM_DB gem 2.5.6 --> http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=2361