From: "Gerardo Santana Gómez Garrido" <gerardo.santana@...>
Date: 2006-04-05T10:50:17+09:00
Subject: Re: DBD::ODBC looks in /etc not /usr/local/etc for odbc files

You set the configuration files path when configuring unixODBC. Test
your ODBC connection with isql. Ruby ODBC only uses whatever was
configured in unixODBC.

2006/4/4, Wes Gamble <weyus@att.net>:
> All,
>
> I had installed the freetds and unixODBC packages onto my Linux system
> using RPMs.
>
> These RPMs installed these two packages into / basically (config files
> in /etc, libraries in /lib and so forth).
>
> However, when I discovered that they weren't working, I gave up on the
> RPMs and built the packages myself into /usr/local (config files in
> /usr/local/etc, libraries in /usr/local/lib and so forth).
>
> I then installed ruby-odbc and ruby-dbi (with the ODBC driver).
>
> What I'm finding is that when I attempt to use the DBD::ODBC package to
> connect to my database, the config. files are still being referenced
> from /etc instead of /usr/local/etc.
>
> How do I "make" the Ruby modules look in /usr/local for the config files
> instead of /etc?
>
> I don't really understand how Ruby is generating it's path's internally.
>
> Thanks,
> Wes
>
> --
> Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
>
>


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