This releases adds more fetch methods and iterators:

fetch_hash_many(n), fetch_hash_all
each_by(n), each_hash_by(n)
fetch!, fetch_hash!, each!, each_hash!

The !-methods reduce object creation by reusing the same result object in each call.

An important change in the behavior of fetch_many and fetch*all methods was made also. They now return an empty array instead of nil when no records are found.

Along with these features, a bug was fixed, triggered when freeing a cursor that was opened but never used, producing a segmentation fault.

Ruby 1.8.2 had some problems on Windows; use Ruby 1.8.4 instead. A binary package is available for Windows users.

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Ruby/Informix is a Ruby extension for connecting to IBM Informix Dynamic Server, written in ESQL/C.

It is being developed and heavily tested on Solaris/SPARC. It has been reported to work on Linux Fedora, SuSE Linux and Windows XP.