Question

I’ve got tables in Oracle that have been created with double quotes, in lowercase. Like you would in MySQL.

Oracle enhanced doesn’t had double quotes around the name so it fails.

DESC people;

But this would work instead:

DESC "people";

How can I force Oracle enhanced to quote the table name without redoing my schema altogether. Here is my model btw.

class Person < ActiveRecord::Base
end

edit:

The table name should remain lowercase in this piece of code. In fact DESC isn’t called even if the error message says so.

https://github.com/rsim/oracle-enhanced/blob/master/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/oracle_enhanced_connection.rb#L30

Answer 1

The only viable solution is to let Oracle handle this and don’t force it to use lowercase table names if you want Ruby OCI8 to be working out of the box.

As Ben said, redoing the schema was the solution here.