From: Xavier Noria <fxn@...>
Date: 2007-11-16T02:12:16+09:00
Subject: Re: Do I need to use JRuby to access an remote oracle DB with JDBC ?

On Nov 15, 2007, at 5:25 PM, wbsurfver@yahoo.com wrote:

> When I try to connect to a remote oracle DB using activerecord oci8, I
> get the error below.
>
> I can connect with dbvisualizer tool using a JDBC connection. I'm not
> on an officialy sanctioned project and can't really bug the sys admins
> or anyone to configure me something on the remote server. If I want to
> try to connect in ruby using JDBC, I'm guessing I may have to use
> JRuby otherwise it won't work ?

Probably the Java application is using the thin driver.

If you have the Oracle client installed you need to configure it  
properly (ORACLE_HOME, tnsnames.ora). Otherwise JRuby + driver thin is  
an option, yes.

-- fxn