You need to have the Oracle client installed. It will create a
directory that you''ll use for ORACLE_HOME. You can download clients at
Oracle''s web site if you create an account.
--Scott
On 5/12/05, Charles Harvey III
<charlieh-DjrnSA9BiggAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
wrote:> I''m sure this has been asked before, but I am having a very
> difficult time figuring it all out.
>
> I have downloaded the ruby9i and ruby-oci8 libraries and have
> been trying to build them for some time now. Neither of them
> will build because I do not have an ORACLE_HOME path variable
> set. Thing is, I don''t have Oracle installed on the machine
> that I have Ruby installed on.
>
> What I do have is an Oracle database currently in use by a few
> projects in production. Now, on my dev server I have installed
> Rails and am trying to access said Oracle database. But I can''t
> access it through Rails since I don''t have either of the Adapters
> installed. But I can''t install either adapter because I
don''t
> have Oracle physically installed on the same machine as Ruby.
>
> I didn''t have to have MySql installed to get that library working.
>
> Is this something I should be asking here or should I be asking
> the creator of the ruby9i library?
>
> Thanks a lot.
>
> Charlie
>
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