Oracle enhanced adapter 1.7.0.rc1 has been released

[Yasuo Honda]

Hi,

Oracle enhanced adapter 1.7.0.rc1 has been released, including fixes for some of known issues.

Oracle enhanced adapter 1.7.0 is the first version which supports Rails 5.0.

Unless no show stopper issues reported within some couple of days Oracle enhanced adapter 1.7.0 will be out.

Please install and test with your applications by updating your Gemfile as follows.

```

gem "activerecord-oracle_enhanced-adapter", "~> 1.7.0.rc1" 

```

Changes and bug fixes

* Support emulate_booleans_from_strings in Rails 5 [#953, #942]

* Deprecate self.is_boolean_column? [#949]

* Deprecate self.is_date_column? and is_date_column? [#950]

* Deprecate set_type_for_columns, set_type_for_columns and clear_types_for_columns [#951]

* Deprecate self.is_integer_column? [#952]

Known issues

Only with JRuby

* Rails 5 : explain should explain query with binds got Java::JavaSql::SQLException: Invalid column index [#908]

* Workaround: execute explain without bind or use CRuby

CRuby and JRuby

* Rails 5 : custom methods for create record when exception is raised in after_create callback fails [#944]

* Rails 5 : specs need update to emulate_booleans_from_strings [#942]

* Rails 5 : undefined method `to_i' for #Arel::Nodes::BindParam:0x00000002c92910 [#848, rails/arel#438]

    #848 reproduces when database version is 11gR2 or older, it does not reproduce with 12c

    One of the unit tests skipped when database version is 11gR2 or lower. [#946]

Thanks for testing beta version of Oracle enhanced adapter 1.7.0. 

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Yasuo Honda