How to execute a scalar query with oci8 and ruby

Question

I'd like to select a next id from a sequence in oracle using oci8 and ruby. What's the easist way of doing so? Example wrong code:

id = @conn.exec( 'Select NEXT_ID.NEXTVAL from dual' )

.exec returns a cursor. Is there an easy way of just getting the one value I need from the exec or similar method?

Answer 1

@conn.exec('Select NEXT_ID.NEXTVAL from dual') {|row| id = row[0]}

You can also do

id = @conn.exec('Select NEXT_ID.NEXTVAL from dual').fetch[0]