Hey, I have connected to the oracle db using ActiveRecord and am trying to retrieve tuples. I have one attribute that has datatype 'number(1)'. I found that ActiveRecord maps this attribute to boolean. So it gets a class of either FalseClass or TrueClass. I tried to find the source of the problem and I found oracle_adapter.rb (http:// www.koders.com/ruby/fidAF6400E299159A198A4064173CF305C895FCA945.aspx?s=%22Michael+Schoen%22#L5) has a method 'simplified_field' that has a line "return :boolean if OracleAdapter.emulate_booleans && field_type == 'NUMBER(1)'". I tried overriding this method on my environment.rb and commented out this line. This problem is solved but I have another field of type 'Interval' which has to get mapped to String, but instead gets mapped to Fixnum when i do this override. Anyone got a clue what's happening. Please help.
It would even be useful if anyone told me how to update the database without using ActiveRecord::update() and just by pure sql command.
