Here''s a solution to the OCI8 problem shown below (change /usr/local/oracle to your site''s oracle): If this happens when you are running scripts at the shell prompt: export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/oracle/lib If this happens in your apache error_log, add to httpd.conf: SetEnv LD_LIBRARY_PATH /usr/local/oracle/lib Kevin Kleinfelter If it''s not documented, it''s a custom, not a standard/process/policy. Customs are the domain of anthropologists. -- Kevin Kleinfelter (and you can quote me) Avik Sengupta avik.sengupta at gmail.com <mailto:rails%40lists.rubyonrails.org?Subject=%5BRails%5D%20Problem%20with%2 0Rails%20and%20OCI8&In-Reply-To=> Tue Mar 15 15:13:29 GMT 2005 Using Rails 0.10.1 , following error when I have OCI8 (ver 1.9) installed .. Older rails (0.9) did not have this problem, AFAIK. Uninstalling OCI8 from site_ruby makes the problem go away. Ideas? Thanks. /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.8.0/lib/active_record/connection_ adapters/oci_adapter.rb:253: undefined method `define_a_column'' for class `OCI8::Cursor'' (NameError) from /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:18:in `require__'' from /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:18:in `require'' from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-1.0.1/lib/active_support/dependenc ies.rb:197:in `require'' from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.8.0/lib/active_record.rb:67 from /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:18:in `require__'' from /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:18:in `require'' from /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:164:in `activate'' from /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:38:in `require_gem_with_options'' from /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:32:in `require_gem'' from ./script/../config/environment.rb:28 from ./script/server:46:in `require'' from ./script/server:46 _______________________________________________ Rails mailing list Rails-1W37MKcQCpIf0INCOvqR/iCwEArCW2h5@public.gmane.org http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails