Oracle and Ruby

From: Matthias Hoys <anti_at_spam.com>
Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2008 17:04:43 +0100
Message-ID: <47c97e4c$0$2959$ba620e4c@news.skynet.be>

Hello,

Anyone using Oracle with Ruby ?
I did some tests using ruby-oci8 and it appears that it's 2-3 times slower than SQL*Plus or Perl. I wrote a script which dumps 500.000 records of a big table into a comma separated flat file. Oracle server and client are version 10.2.0.3.0. So I wonder why Ruby is so slow ?