From: usenet2009@... (Viktor Zacek)
Date: 2009-07-22T16:30:09+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby/Oracle connectivity

Dheeraj Gambhir <checktestingthings@gmail.com> wrote:

> It gives me following error:
> 
> 
> C:\testwatir>ruby contest.rb
> c:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/oci8.rb:52:in `init': OCI Library 
> Initialization
> Error (OCIError)
>         from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/oci8.rb:52
>         from 
> c:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:31:in `ge
> m_original_require'
>         from 
> c:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:31:in `re
> quire'
>         from contest.rb:1
> 
> 
> Please help me.

Connecting with the oracle client (i.e. sqlplus) works?

I am lacking experience with OCI, but my overall feeling says the
problem is somewhere located in the prerequisites... maybe some missing
oracle dll, or misconfigured client, missing tnsnames.ora or something
like that.


Best regards,
Viktor