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> Datum: Fri, 28 Dec 2007 21:15:51 +0900
> Von: Pradeepta Swain <pradeepta.swain / hcl.in>
> An: ruby-talk / ruby-lang.org
> Betreff: please help !

> I have installed dbi,oci8,ruby 1.8.6 ,oracle client 9.2 on XP machine
> I have tried to connect a remote database using the code
> 
> dbh = DBI.connect('DBI:OCI8:ORCL','ftdam','ftdam')

Dear Pradeepta,

please be more specific in your email headers - you'll
get more replies from people who are actually
competent for your problem :)

From your error message, there appears to be a problem about the file
oci8lib.so (see here:

http://ruby-oci8.rubyforge.org/svn/tags/ruby-oci8-1.0.0-rc2/NEWS )

This article:

http://wiki.rubyonrails.com/rails/pages/HowtoConnectToOracle

describes a way to connect to Oracle from Ruby on Rails
( you don't seem to be using it, but nevertheless), so 
assuming that you did everything right as described there and
things don't work nevertheless, I'd suggest you try out
using ¡Æoracle¡Ç rather than ¡Æoci¡Ç as an adapter, which is supposed
to be newer, as described here:

http://blog.andrewbeacock.com/2007/06/how-to-change-your-rails-database.html

Best regards,

Axel 


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