Comments on: Thanks, Oracle

By: Raimonds

Raimonds — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 17:38:44 +0000

I have published description how to setup Ruby with PowerPC Oracle Instant Client on Intel Mac at
http://rayapps.wordpress.com/2007/08/27/how-to-setup-ruby-and-oracle-client-on-intel-mac/

This solution works for me while I am waiting for new Oracle Instant Client for Intel Mac.

By: Jon Tirsen

Jon Tirsen — Sun, 29 Apr 2007 21:33:16 +0000

As you pointed out yourself, you should really give JRuby a try. ActiveRecord-JDBC is damn close to being production ready. There are minor incompatibility issues being worked out with different databases but for something as basic as “select_all” it should just work. (The issues are mostly related to things not covered in the JDBC spec such as representation of booleans, DDL, typecasts and so forth.)

By: Mistaeks I Hav Made

Mistaeks I Hav Made — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 09:18:35 +0000

Scrapheap Challenge at SPA2007, part 3: Name that Tune…

The second challenge in the SPA 2007 Scrapheap Challenge workshop was: A Christmas Quiz Game. I want a quiz game to play at Christmas. The most important feature is that I don’t want to have to prepare the quiz beforehand…….

By: Carlos Villela

Carlos Villela — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 09:02:39 +0000

Well, yeah – JDBC would be nice. In fact, you can use JDBC if you’re using JRuby:

https://rubyforge.org/projects/jruby-extras/

By: T

Mon, 23 Apr 2007 18:43:26 +0000

Then you miss JDBC

By: bartocc

bartocc — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 17:47:53 +0000

Unfortunately, Carlos is right, OCI8 cannot be used with the Oracle PPC client on an intel Mac.

I really can’t believe Oracle integrates so badly with OS X. This makes activerecord, and hense Rails, almost unusable on a mac for an Oracle database.

I am about to do what Carlos mentioned above, use a PPC version Ruby through rosetta, but I really doubt I’ll be happy with this solution.

Thanks Oracle !

By: Carlos Villela

Carlos Villela — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 16:19:19 +0000

Thanks for the pointer to ruby-oci8. It’s the library I was trying to install when I noticed that it only works on PowerPC Macs (or Macs with the PowerPC version of Ruby running, in general).

By: C. S.

C. S. — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 15:45:23 +0000

Never tried on the MAC, but if you have sqlplus, ruby and OCI8 (http://rubyforge.org/projects/ruby-oci8/) you should be able to use Active Record. OCI8 serves as a translation layer that runs on top of the Oracle client.