From: Peter Bailey <pbailey@...>
Date: 2009-04-15T00:09:44+09:00
Subject: Re: connecting to Oracle using OCI8 and DBI

Takehiro Kubo wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 9:35 PM, Peter Bailey <pbailey@bna.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>> I need to access an Oracla database with Ruby. I've loaded OCI8 and DBI.
>> When I run a simple script to just check on the existence of an image in
>> the database, I get a DBI interface error, and, this:
>>
>> Exception: Could not load driver (unitialized constant OCI8::Driver)
> 
> What version of ruby, ruby-dbi and ruby-oci8 do you use?
> How did you install ruby-dbi and ruby-oci8?

Thanks,
I'm using Ruby 1.8.6. I did a gem install of dbi, so, presumably, it's 
the latest. And, I downloaded and installed the latest version of oci8, 
for Windows.

A colleague of mine suggested that, for my purposes, I can just use http 
to query my database. So, I've done that and it works. But, I would like 
to understand better how to actually get into the database, because, in 
the future, I could foresee needing to actually pull files from it.
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