Oracle Adapter on Mac OS X?

Scott Hill
Mon, 21 Mar 2005 00:32:58 -0000

I had previously gotten Maik Schmidt''s patch for Oracle working, but
now am trying the official Oracle adapter with the latest Rails. I''ve
been trying to get the OCI8 connector to install under OS X, but get
the following error. Has anyone gotten it working?

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[waterdog:~/Desktop/ruby-oci8-0.1.9] stmpjmpr% ruby setup.rb config
---> lib
---> lib/DBD
---> lib/DBD/OCI8
<--- lib/DBD/OCI8
<--- lib/DBD
<--- lib
---> ext
---> ext/oci8
/usr/local/bin/ruby /Users/stmpjmpr/Desktop/ruby-oci8-0.1.9/ext/oci8/extconf.rb
checking for gcc... yes
Get the version of Oracle from SQL*Plus... ''system /usr/local/bin/ruby
/Users/stmpjmpr/Desktop/ruby-oci8-0.1.9/ext/oci8/extconf.rb '' failed
Try ''ruby setup.rb --help'' for detailed usage.

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--Scott