Oracle, You Are Mine!
Tuesday, November 8th, 2005Going through the Enterprise Ruby book I noticed that the first database they talk about is Oracle. So I figured I might as well bite the bullet and get at least one language on my development box (Java not included, JDBC has always worked just fine) working with the Oracle Instant Client.
I thought I had everything installed correctly but I still wasn’t able to connect, even with sqlplus. Turns out it wasn’t entirely my fault. Word from the DBA was:
Oracle’s “Easy Connection Identifier” isn’t easy and doesn’t work as listed.
So there. Anyway, everything is working with ruby and the oci8 module. w00t!