Rails - Jul 2008 - datatype problem when using ActiveRecord with Oracle

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.
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It would even be useful if anyone told me how to update the database without
using ActiveRecord::update() and just by pure sql command.

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