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Kevin McNamee

2007-May-29 07:36 UTC

undefined method `define_a_column'' for class `OCI8::Cursor''

Hi,

Environment: Solaris 10, Orale 10g, Apache 2.2, Ruby 1.8.4, Rails
1.2.3, Ruby OCI8 1.0.0-rc2

As soon as I compiled and installed the Ruby/OCI8 interface, I got the
following error from my application:

========================[notice] mod_fcgid: call
/export/home/invido/invido/portal2/public/
dispatch.fcgi with wrapper /usr/local/bin/ruby /export/home/invido/
invido/portal2/public/dispatch.fcgi
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.15.3/lib/
active_record/connection_adapters/oracle_adapter.rb:536: undefined
method `define_a_column'' for class `OCI8::Cursor'' (NameError)
...
========================
Looking around, I got a lot of hits pointing to environment settings
(LD_LIBRARY_PATH, etc.), for example:
http://dev.rubyonrails.org/ticket/1027

However, none of this had any effect and in any case this seems like
this is a purely ruby problem. I mean it is missing a method
somewhere. Looking at the error in question:

=========================...
  class OCI8 #:nodoc:

    # This OCI8 patch may not longer be required with the upcoming
    # release of version 0.2.
    class Cursor #:nodoc:
      alias :define_a_column_pre_ar :define_a_column
#           <--- line 536
      def define_a_column(i)
       case do_ocicall(@ctx) { @parms[i -
1].attrGet(OCI_ATTR_DATA_TYPE) }
        when 8    : @stmt.defineByPos(i, String, 65535) # Read LONG
values
        when 187  : @stmt.defineByPos(i, OraDate) # Read TIMESTAMP
values
        when 108
          if @parms[i - 1].attrGet(OCI_ATTR_TYPE_NAME) ==
''XMLTYPE''
            @stmt.defineByPos(i, String, 65535)
          else
            raise ''unsupported datatype''
          end
        else define_a_column_pre_ar i
        end
      end
    end
...
==========================
It looks like it is redefining a function from the original Cursor
class in /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/oci8.rb but it seems to be
failing to find the "define_a_column" method.

I am really stuck here. What can I do?

Much appreciated,
Kevin


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Kevin McNamee

2007-May-29 11:15 UTC

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Re: undefined method `define_a_column'' for class `OCI8::Cursor''

Hi,

I should have said that I think that this is purely a Rails problem,
since the ruby one-liner works fine:
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/instantclient_10_2 \ruby -r oci8 -e ''
    OCI8.new("XXXX", "YYYY",
"//localhost/sid").exec("select * from
release_states")
    do |r| puts r.join(","); end
''

/Kevin





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Michael A. Schoen

2007-May-29 16:47 UTC

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Re: undefined method `define_a_column'' for class `OCI8::Cursor''

Kevin McNamee wrote:> It looks like it is redefining a function from the original Cursor
> class in /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/oci8.rb but it seems to be
> failing to find the "define_a_column" method.
> 
> I am really stuck here. What can I do?
This is a library path problem. The solution varies by platform, but you 
need to have your environment set up such that you can successfully 
connect to your Oracle database using sqlplus. If you can do that, you 
won''t have this error.




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Kevin McNamee

2007-May-29 18:59 UTC

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Re: undefined method `define_a_column'' for class `OCI8::Cursor''

I can run sqlplus as follows:

========================> LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/instantclient_10_2
/usr/local/instantclient_10_2/sqlplus

SQL*Plus: Release 10.2.0.3.0 - Production on Tue May 29 20:53:44 2007

Copyright (c) 1982, 2006, Oracle.  All Rights Reserved.

Enter user-name:
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This is how my httpd.conf looks:

========================<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerAdmin webmaster@acme.com
    DocumentRoot /home/username/myapp/public
    ServerName myapp.acme.com
    ServerAlias myapp
    ErrorLog logs/myapp.acme.com-error_log
    CustomLog logs/myapp.acme.com-access_log common

    # Taken from http://fastcgi.coremail.cn/configuration.htm#Ruby
    # and modified for Apache 2.2

    #SocketPath /tmp/fcgid_sock
    #SharememPath /tmp/fcgid_shm

    SetEnv RAILS_ENV production
    SetEnv LD_LIBRARY_PATH /usr/local/instantclient_10_2

    <Directory /export/home/invido/invido/portal2/public>
        Options ExecCGI FollowSymLinks
        AllowOverride AuthConfig Indexes Limit FileInfo Options
        Order allow,deny
        Allow from all

        AddHandler fcgid-script .fcgi

        FCGIWrapper "/usr/local/bin/ruby /home/username/myapp/public/
dispatch.fcgi" .fcgi

        RewriteEngine On
        RewriteRule ^$ index.html [QSA]
        RewriteRule ^([^.]+)$ $1.html [QSA]
        RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
        RewriteRule ^(.*)$ dispatch.fcgi [QSA,L]
    </Directory>
</VirtualHost>
========================
I restart Apache but still get "define_a_column" error



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Kevin McNamee

2007-May-29 20:03 UTC

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Re: undefined method `define_a_column'' for class `OCI8::Cursor''

OK, so I solved the problem. Yippee! My Apache conf was incorrect.

========================<IfModule mod_fcgid.c>
    DefaultInitEnv LD_LIBRARY_PATH /usr/local/instantclient_10_2
    DefaultInitEnv TNS_ADMIN /etc/oracle
</IfModule>

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerAdmin webmas...@acme.com
    DocumentRoot /home/username/myapp/public
    ServerName myapp.acme.com
    ServerAlias myapp
    ErrorLog logs/myapp.acme.com-error_log
    CustomLog logs/myapp.acme.com-access_log common

    # Taken from http://fastcgi.coremail.cn/configuration.htm#Ruby
    # and modified for Apache 2.2

    #SocketPath /tmp/fcgid_sock
    #SharememPath /tmp/fcgid_shm

    DefaultInitEnv RAILS_ENV production

    <Directory /home/username/myapp/public>
        Options ExecCGI FollowSymLinks
        AllowOverride AuthConfig Indexes Limit FileInfo Options
        Order allow,deny
        Allow from all

        AddHandler fcgid-script .fcgi

        FCGIWrapper "/usr/local/bin/ruby /home/username/myapp/public/
dispatch.fcgi" .fcgi

        RewriteEngine On
        RewriteRule ^$ index.html [QSA]
        RewriteRule ^([^.]+)$ $1.html [QSA]
        RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
        RewriteRule ^(.*)$ dispatch.fcgi [QSA,L]
    </Directory>
</VirtualHost>
========================
The "SetEnv" directives had no effect. The correct directive to use is
"DefaultInitEnv". Plus the following configuration information from
http://wiki.rubyonrails.com/rails/pages/HowToUseOracleWithFastCGI

Thanks for your patience!
/Kevin


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