Hi, got a problem with rails AR connecting to Oracle. On my Solaris box everything is running fine, when I try to connect from my Linux box to the remote database on Solaris using AR I get the following error: ------------------------ /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.10.1/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/oci_adapter.rb:252: undefined method `define_a_column'' for class `OCI8::Cursor'' (NameError) from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:18:in `require__'' from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:18:in `require'' from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-1.0.4/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:197:in `require'' from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.10.1/lib/active_record.rb:69 from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:18:in `require__'' from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:18:in `require'' from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-1.0.4/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:197:in `require'' from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:175:in `activate'' from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:23:in `require'' from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-1.0.4/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:197:in `require'' from ./script/../config/environment.rb:39 from script/server:42:in `require'' from script/server:42 ---------------- Using sqlplus on Linux and the service from tnsnames.ora I can connect to the database - how should my database.yml look like for remote Oracle access? Is this the problem or something else? Has anyone a clue for me? tia, kayhtee