Ruby/Informix 0.6.0 released

There are two important additions in this release:

• Test suite
• Exception classes for Informix errors

Please read the following changelog for details.

Changelog:

0.6.0 08/28/2007
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New features:

• Test suite
• Error, Warning, and AssertionFailure classes replace RuntimeError when raising exceptions.

  Error class methods:
  - message
  - sql_code
  - add_info
  - []
  - each
  - to_s
  - size, length

  message and sql_code reference the first error message. Following
  errors can be accessed through Error#[] as ExcInfo objects.

  ExcInfo is a Struct with the following members:
  - sql_code
  - sql_state
  - class_origin_val
  - subclass_origin_val
  - message
  - server_name
  - connection_name

  See test/testcase.rb for a simple example of exception handling.

• Informix.version returns the version of this extension
• Database#do aliased as Database#execute
• More documentation

Remarks:

• Database#do is deprecated and will be removed in next versions. Use Database#execute or Database#immediate instead.
• In case of Informix errors, RuntimeError objects are no longer raised.
  Error, Warning and AssertionFailure objects are raised instead.

Acknowledgments:
I want to thank Edwin Fine (emofine at finecomputerconsultants dot com) who contributed all the functionality of this release.

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Gerardo Santana