From: Armin Roehrl <armin@...>
Date: 2003-03-18T21:58:00+09:00
Subject: a trivial Oracle OCI-8 question

Hi,

  maybe s.b. can help me here -- as I have no Oracle db here installed
to help a friend.

- Does the ruby OCI-8 allow to connect to a remote oracle server?
My friend got it running locally, but remote connection does not seem
to work.

this works:
require 'oci8'
conn = OCI8.new($dbuser, $dbpass)

What do I have to change now connect to a different databaseserver?
Let's try it with localhost first:
conn = OCI8.new($dbuser, $dbpass, "localhost") 
#-> complains about no listener (ORA-12541)

Where is the obvious mistake? 

Thanks,
	-Armin.