From: Jan Svitok <jan.svitok@...>
Date: 2007-02-07T23:18:35+09:00
Subject: Re: ActiveRecord/Oracle without Rails

On 2/7/07, Drew Olson <olsonas@gmail.com> wrote:
> All -
>
> I'm attempting to write a data validation program using ActiveRecord and
> connecting to an Oracle 10g database. I've downloaded the ruby-oci8
> package, double clicked it to install, and written a simple program
> (shown below). However, when I run the program, I get a pop up with the
> following error: This application has failed to start because OCI.dll
> was not found. Re-installing the application may fix this problem. Also,
> this is the error shown on the console after the application exits:
>
> c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.15.2/lib/active_record/connection_
> adapters/oracle_adapter.rb:685:in `oci_connection': Oracle/OCI libraries
> could n
> ot be loaded: 126: The specified module could not be found.   -
> c:/ruby/lib/ruby
> /site_ruby/1.8/i386-msvcrt/oci8lib.so (LoadError)
>
> Any ideas? I'm confused because when I doubled clicked the ruby-oci8
> package, I know it placed oci8lib.so in
> c:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/i386-msvcrt/oci8lib.so. I'm on a windows
> box.

Look for OCI.dll - it's a dependency for oci8lib.so. It should be 1.
in the oci8lib's dir, 2. somewhere on the $PATH. There are maybe more
options, for details see
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dllproc/base/dynamic-link_library_search_order.asp