Question

I’ve just recently started learning/using Ruby at work. I’ve got a super-simple test script that just connects to our Oracle 10g database, runs a select, and ‘puts’ the results to the screen. This is on a Solaris 10 server. If I run the script as the ‘apps’ user (the system user that runs our automated scripts), the script runs fines. If I run it as myself, it throws an error:

oci8lib.c:98:in oci8lib.so: OCI Library Initialization Error (OCIError)
    from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/oci8.rb:25
    from ./dbTest.rb:3:in `require'
    from ./dbTest.rb:3

My env vars match the ‘apps’ user’s. I’m assuming this is a permissions issue on some file/directory or other but I don’t know where to start looking. Line 25 in the oci8.rb file is a “require ‘oci8lib_18′” directive. I have read and execute permissions on the oci8lib_18.so file and the dirs leading to it, but I don’t know which dirs it needs to access.

Does anyone have any suggestions on what files/dirs I should check the permissions on? Or any other thoughts on what the issue may be?

UPDATE I’ve been emailing with the guy that supports OCI8 and it turns out that several of the Oracle directories have permissions that prevent my login from accessing needed info. A simple test was to try to run sqlplus, which also failed.

Dave

Answer 1

I’ve been emailing with the guy that supports OCI8 and it turns out that several of the Oracle directories have permissions that prevent my login from accessing needed info. A simple test was to try to run sqlplus, which also failed.