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Installing Ruby 1.9.2 And Rails 3.1.1 with Oracle 11.2.0.3 on Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric

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Here are the steps to install and configure Ruby on rails with oracle 11.2.0.3 on 32 bit Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric.

First install the pacakges needed by oracle

sudo apt-get install x11-utils rpm ksh lsb-rpm libaio1
sudo ln -s /usr/include/i386-linux-gnu/sys /usr/include/sys

Download the oracle instant client

Download the following .zip files from the oracle instant client download site.

instantclient-basiclite-linux-11.2.0.3.0.zip
instantclient-sqlplus-linux-11.2.0.3.0.zip
instantclient-sdk-linux-11.2.0.3.0.zip

Install the oracle InstantClient

Create a directory /u01/11gr2

cd /u01/11gr2

unzip the above 3 .zip files into this directory

You will have a new subdirectory named instantclient_11_2

Create a softlink to libclntsh.so

cd /u01/11gr2/instantclient_11_2
ln -s libclntsh.so.11.1 libclntsh.so

 

Setup the Oracle environment

Add the following to your .bashrc file (And source the file, . ./.bashrc)

export ORACLE_HOME=/u01/11gr2/instantclient_11_2
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$ORACLE_HOME/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
export TNS_ADMIN=$ORACLE_HOME

 

Create the tnsnames.ora file in /u01/11gr2/instantclient_11_2

Add service name entry for your oracle database  to the tnsnames.ora

RK01 =
  (DESCRIPTION =
    (ADDRESS = (PROTOCOL = TCP)(HOST = burl5vb1)(PORT = 1521))
    (CONNECT_DATA =
      (SERVER = DEDICATED)
      (SERVICE_NAME = rk01)
    )
  )

 

Install Ruby 1.9.2

sudo apt-get install curl
sudo apt-get install git-core

git config --global user.name "YourNameHere"
git config --global user.emailbash YourEmailHere

bash << (curl -s https://rvm.beginrescueend.com/install/rvm)

sudo apt-get install build-essential bison openssl libreadline6 libreadline6-dev curl git-core zlib1g zlib1g-dev libssl-dev libyaml-dev libsqlite3-0 libsqlite3-dev sqlite3libxml2-dev libxslt-dev autoconf libc6-dev ncurses-dev

rvm install 1.9.2
rvm --default use 1.9.2

Install Rails 3.1.1

gem install rails

Installing and using the oracle driver.

You can include the download and install of the oracle-advanced driver and the oci8 driver in the Gemfile for your application.

So that when you do the bundle install, it will install those gems for you.

Example shown below.

rails new testora
cd testora

 

Add the following lines to your Gemfile (In the application base directory)

gem 'activerecord-oracle_enhanced-adapter', :git => 'git://github.com/rsim/oracle-enhanced.git'
gem 'ruby-oci8', '~> 2.0.6'

Save and quit from Gemfile

Run the following command to install all the gems you need for the application

bundle install

Remove all the other entroes and add the database connection entry to your database.yml file (Under testora/config).

development:
  adapter: oracle_enhanced
  database: rk01
  username: scott
  password: tiger

Create your application and run it

rails generate scaffold purchase name:string cost:float
rake db:migrate
rails server

You can access the application from the following URL.
http://localhost:3000/purchases

 

Now you should be able to run your application.