Ruby on Rails and Oracle

1.Get the Ruby OCI8 driver.  Download the file that ends with “mswin32.rb” and install like this:
E:\ruby>ruby ruby-oci8-1.0.3-mswin32.rb
Copy OCI8.rb to e:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/DBD/OCI8
Copy oci8.rb to e:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8
Copy oci8lib.so to e:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/i386-msvcrt
OK?
Enter Yes/No: Yes
Copying OCI8.rb to e:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/DBD/OCI8 ... done
Copying oci8.rb to e:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8 ... done
Copying oci8lib.so to e:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/i386-msvcrt ... done
OK
You can test the driver by running a query using Ruby.
E:\>ruby -r oci8 -e "OCI8.new('foo','12345','sid').exec(
'SELECT * from users') do |r| puts r.join(' | ') ; end"

2.Install the ActiveRecord Oracle adapter.gem
E:\ruby>install activerecord-oracle-adapter --source http://gems.rubyonrails.org

3.Update config/database.yml to connect to Oracle
development:
  adapter: oracle
  database: sid
  username: foo
  password: 12345
  timeout: 5000
 
4.Test by doing a rake db:migrate.

5.Test by running the Ruby on Rails server and making sure there are no errors upon startup.