From: Matthew Carlson <mcarlson@...>
Date: 2006-01-07T09:42:24+09:00
Subject: Problem Connecting to Oracle

Howdy,

I'm hoping someone can assist me with a problem I'm having connecting to 
a remote Oracle database.

Details:
Running windows 2000.  Have Oracle 92 client installed.  The install was 
successful, as I'm able to use sqlplus/toad etc without issue

Downloaded oci8 adapter. This too was successful, as I'm able to run 
test scripts via the Ruby interpreter against the database with no 
issues.

When I try to run scaffolding with Rails however, I run into issues.

I took these details from the 2 wiki postings on Oracle.

My database.yml:
development:
  adapter: oci
  database:
  host: SID
  username: user
  password: password

With this configuration, I get: ORA-01017: invalid username/password; 
logon denied.  Both the user and password are correct though - I am sure 
of this.

If I modify the database.yml to the following:
development:
  adapter: oci
  database: SID
  host: HOST/PORT
  username: user
  password: password

I get the following error: ORA-06401: NETCMN: invalid driver designator.
I've googled the hell out of this error, and while the solution seems 
straightforward in most of the postings, none of them have been able to 
solve my problem.  Either that, or I'm just not understanding some 
Oracle functionality very thoroughly...

I've subsequently tried a number of other combinations in the yml, 
including using the IP and SID, IP alone, etc..all to no avail.

Any help anyone can offer would be greatly appreciated. I'm happy to 
provide more details as well, as I'm anxious to get up and running on 
our corporate dbases to show rails off a bit.

Thanks,
Matt

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