Rails - May 2006 - OCI8::Cursor (Name Error) in HP-UX 11.11 error

Hi
I have looked at google about this error as well as in ruby on rails 
forums, but I can not specifically locate the exact problem and the 
solution for it.
Basically, I successfully installed ruby 1.8.4 on HP-UX 11.11 with rails 
gem.
But unfortunately whenever I try to create a test application by using 
"rails testapp", I am getting the follwing errror:

$ rails testapp
/apps/gcti/ccon_rep/cfile//lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.14.2/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/oracle_adapter.rb:520:
undefined method `define_a_column'' for class `OCI8::Cursor''
(NameError)
        from 
/apps/gcti/ccon_rep/cfile//lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:21:in
`require''
        from 
/apps/gcti/ccon_rep/cfile//lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-1.3.1/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:147:in
`require''
        from 
/apps/gcti/ccon_rep/cfile//lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.14.2/lib/active_record.rb:75
        from 
/apps/gcti/ccon_rep/cfile//lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.14.2/lib/active_record.rb:74
        from 
/apps/gcti/ccon_rep/cfile//lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:21:in
`require''
        from 
/apps/gcti/ccon_rep/cfile//lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:182:in 
`activate''
        from 
/apps/gcti/ccon_rep/cfile//lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:181:in 
`activate''
        from 
/apps/gcti/ccon_rep/cfile//lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:167:in 
`activate''
        from 
/apps/gcti/ccon_rep/cfile//lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:166:in 
`activate''
        from 
/apps/gcti/ccon_rep/cfile//lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:37:in 
`require_gem_with_options''
        from 
/apps/gcti/ccon_rep/cfile//lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:31:in 
`require_gem''
        from /apps/gcti/ccon_rep/cfile/bin/rails:17

Now I am suspecting that the OCI8 adapter either is not installed 
properly or rails is not installed properly. I need OCI8 because I am 
going to connect to an oracle database.
Could you be kind enough to let me know what the exact problem is and 
how to solve it?
Best regards
Deniz




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> Sent: Wednesday, May 24, 2006 12:43 PM
> To: rails@lists.rubyonrails.org
> Subject: [Rails] OCI8::Cursor (Name Error) in HP-UX 11.11 error
> 
> 
> Hi
> I have looked at google about this error as well as in ruby on rails 
> forums, but I can not specifically locate the exact problem and the 
> solution for it.
> Basically, I successfully installed ruby 1.8.4 on HP-UX 11.11 
> with rails 
> gem.
> But unfortunately whenever I try to create a test application 
> by using 
> "rails testapp", I am getting the follwing errror:
<snip>

I believe http://dev.rubyonrails.org/ticket/1027 has your answer.

Regards,

Dan


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Hi Deniz

deniz rende wrote:
> Basically, I successfully installed ruby 1.8.4
> on HP-UX 11.11 with rails gem.
Could you say more about what you mean when you say "successfully 
installed"?

Configuring Rails to use Oracle is best treated as a second step in 
configuring Rails.  I recommend you take it a step at a time and start at 
the beginning.

Are you able, for example, to get to the Rails welcome page using WEBrick?

Best regards,
Bill

> 
> Could you say more about what you mean when you say "successfully
> installed"?
> 
> Configuring Rails to use Oracle is best treated as a second step in
> configuring Rails.  I recommend you take it a step at a time and start 
> at
> the beginning.
> 
> Are you able, for example, to get to the Rails welcome page using 
> WEBrick?
> 
> Best regards,
> Bill
Hi Bill,
What I mean by successfully installing ruby means that, a simple hello 
world application such as ruby -e ''puts "Hello
World"'' works or writing
ruby -v that returns ruby 1.8.4...
Going back to rails on top of ruby just does not work. Creating a simple 
test app was not succesful. Therefore I could not go to the directory 
and simply start up webrick, but I can see rails being istalled by 
typing gem list --local.
Thnx
Deniz


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Hi Deniz,

deniz rende wrote:
> What I mean by successfully installing ruby means that, a simple hello
> world application such as ruby -e ''puts "Hello
World"'' works or writing
> ruby -v that returns ruby 1.8.4...
OK.  That gives hope that Ruby was indeed successfully installed.
> Going back to rails on top of ruby just does not work.
> Creating a simple test app was not succesful.  Therefore
> I could not go to the directory and simply start up webrick,
I''m not sure what you mean what you mean by "could not go to the
directory
and simply start up webrick."  If you really mean you can''t start
WEBrick
you''ve got a different problem than if you mean you can start WEBrick
but it
won''t serve a simple test app.  Which do you mean?

Bill

Bill Walton wrote:
> Hi Deniz,
> 
> deniz rende wrote:
> 
>> What I mean by successfully installing ruby means that, a simple hello
>> world application such as ruby -e ''puts "Hello
World"'' works or writing
>> ruby -v that returns ruby 1.8.4...
> 
> OK.  That gives hope that Ruby was indeed successfully installed.
> 
>> Going back to rails on top of ruby just does not work.
>> Creating a simple test app was not succesful.  Therefore
>> I could not go to the directory and simply start up webrick,
> 
> I''m not sure what you mean what you mean by "could not go to
the
> directory
> and simply start up webrick."  If you really mean you can''t
start
> WEBrick
> you''ve got a different problem than if you mean you can start
WEBrick
> but it
> won''t serve a simple test app.  Which do you mean?
> 
> Bill
Hi Bill,
In my original message I mentioned that creating a test application by 
using
$rails testapp
would spit out the error.
Therefore, the directory is not created. Since the tesapp directory is 
not created, It is just not possible to go in there and write
ruby script/server
Therefore webrick can not be started.
Please refer to the original message and see the errors.
thnx
Deniz

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Berger, Daniel wrote:
>> forums, but I can not specifically locate the exact problem and the 
>> solution for it.
>> Basically, I successfully installed ruby 1.8.4 on HP-UX 11.11 
>> with rails 
>> gem.
>> But unfortunately whenever I try to create a test application 
>> by using 
>> "rails testapp", I am getting the follwing errror:
> 
> <snip>
> 
> I believe http://dev.rubyonrails.org/ticket/1027 has your answer.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Dan
> 
> 
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thank you Dan.
I will look into that as soon as possible.
Deniz.

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Hi Deniz,

deniz rende wrote:
> In my original message I mentioned that creating
> a test application by using $rails testapp would
> spit out the error.  Therefore, the directory is not
> created. Since the tesapp directory is not created,
> It is just not possible to go in there and write
> ruby script/server Therefore webrick can not be started.
> Please refer to the original message and see the errors.
Sorry about missing that in your original post.  Rails is definitely not 
installed correctly installed.  Don''t waste time worrying about Oracle 
adapters.  Get Rails working on a base install (i.e., works with WEBrick). 
Once that''s working, take the next step.

hth.
Bill