I’m working on a Rails site that connects to an Oracle database, and though I didn’t build the site from scratch, I’m doing maintenance work. The site uses the delayed_jobs plugin to handle some background tasks and I’d like to be able to run rake jobs:work on the development server to periodically process all jobs in the queue (due to the server’s configuration, running a daemonized version of the script on the development server isn’t an option). However, whenever I try running the command, I get the following classic Oracle error:
error while trying to retrieve text for error ora-12154
Ordinarily, I’d think this would be an authentication problem (e.g. incorrect credentials in database.yml), but the site is up and running fine (and doing lots of database stuff). I’ve tried adding RAILS_ENV=production as a parameter to rake to force it to run in in the production environment, but got the same error (there are two separate rails installations for the production and development versions of the site, and I’ve set the “development” and “production” credentials in development’s db config file to be identical).
I’m not sure what could be causing this error, and I don’t have a ton of experience using Oracle with rails. Any suggestions?
Thanks a lot!
Justin
EDIT (10/26/09): Still can’t figure out what’s causing the problem here. The app continues to run (and talk to the database) without a problem, but rake keeps throwing DB errors. So does script/console, which shows a prompt but first complains with the same Oracle error message. I’m going to keep looking, but I’m running out of ideas…
EDIT(10/26/09, later): Following the advice of this link, I set both ORACLE_HOME and TNS_ADMIN to point to the directory where tnsnames.ora lives. Just setting ORACLE_HOME had no obvious effect, but now that TNS_ADMIN points to the right place, I’ve started getting segmentation faults whenever I try to open the console or run rake:
/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/oci8.rb:184: [BUG] Segmentation Fault
and get booted unceremoniously back to the prompt. Any further ideas?
Finally got it…turns out that ORACLE_HOME wasn’t being correctly set as an environment variable for my user account. Now rake, script/console, etc. are humming along happily.