From: Wilson Bilkovich <wilsonb@...>
Date: 2005-09-07T06:08:17+09:00
Subject: Re: rails and oracle sequences

Check this page out:
http://wiki.rubyonrails.com/rails/show/EdgeRails
I'm using that process (fresh checkout of Rails into the /vendor/
directory) with Oracle9i, and all is well.

--Wilson.

On 9/6/05, Carlos Diaz <crdiaz324@gmail.com> 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 :)
>