From: Michael Schoen <schoenm@...>
Date: 2005-09-07T06:06:17+09:00
Subject: Re: rails and oracle sequences

To apply the patch, you'll need to be running on edge rails, meaning 
you've got a local working copy of the repository. You can checkout the 
repository with the command:

	svn co http://dev.rubyonrails.org/svn/rails/trunk

This will create a "trunk" dir that contains the head of the svn 
repository. Create a symlink to this dir called 'rails' in your 
APPROOT/vendor dir, and then apply the patch using the 'patch' command.

Alternatively (and easier), just use "beta gems" -- the Rails team 
periodically releases a pre-release gem version, and the last 2 beta 
gems have included this patch.

You can install the beta gems with the command:

	gem update --remote --source gems.rubyonrails.com


Carlos Diaz wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to build an application on rails using an oracle 9i database on 
> the backend. everything was going fine until I ran into a problem with rails 
> trying to use the rails_sequence for all the ids (primary keys) in my 
> database. This seems to be a known issue and there appears to be a fix for 
> it. It's all documented here:
> 
> http://dev.rubyonrails.com/ticket/1798
> 
> The problem I'm running into is that I do not know how to apply this patch 
> to my current installation. I tried doing a 'gem update rails', 'gem update 
> activerecord' and 'gem update' but this does not seem to solve the problem. 
> I think I need to actually apply the patch to my installation. 
> 
> Can someone help me understand how to do this? I can't seem to find any docs 
> descibing how/what to patch (do I patch OCI or activerecord?). Or if you can 
> at least point me in the right direction :) 
> 
> Thanks,
> Carlos
>