The warning: unless you’re going to make a career of it, run screaming from any suggestion that you install and configure Oracle. I set up Postgres and MySQL regularly. You’d think that would help, but NOOO.
The suggestion: if you *must* install and set up Oracle, it is somewhat less scream-inducing to do it on Windows than on Linux. The question: now how do I connect to it? The only way I’ve gotten to work is from DOS: sqlplus <user>@<database> This comes back: ORA-12154: TNS:could not resolve the connect identifier specified at which point it asks me to enter user name and password. The <user> I just entered above and its password then work fine. I can’t do this either: sqlplus <user>/<password>@<database> What I *really* need is to connect from IRB on my Mac. I have oci8 gem installed. The amount of subtly and grossly different advice I get when I try to google this issue is truly astounding: listener.ora, tnsnames.ora, connection strings, setting environment variables, using various Oracle utilities (many of which I don’t appear to have), and every one advises me to do something slightly different, and assumes I understand some other thing that’s just as confusing. Does anyone here have experience with this situation who might advise me? -- -- SD Ruby mailing list [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/sdruby --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "SD Ruby" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
