# Cannot connect in jruby rails for newbie using jruby-1.5.0 final and rails 2.3.3

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**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [June 30, 2010, 8:18pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/cannot-connect-in-jruby-rails-for-newbie-using-jruby-1-5-0-final-and-rails-2-3-3/190921 "2010-06-30T20:18:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![davidjrice](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/5e9695/32.png) [@davidjrice](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/davidjrice)\
**Post date:** [June 30, 2010, 8:18pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/cannot-connect-in-jruby-rails-for-newbie-using-jruby-1-5-0-final-and-rails-2-3-3/190921/1 "2010-06-30T20:18:16Z")

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can’t connect nor db:migrate using jruby-1.5.0(final) and rails 2.3.3  
on a windows XP machine  
here is my database.yml:  
development:  
adapter: jdbc  
driver: oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver  
url: jdbc:oracle:thin:@localhost:1521:monkey  
username: scott  
password: tiger1

C:\comics-catalog\>jruby -S rake db:migrate --trace --verbose  
(in C:/comics-catalog)  
\*\* Invoke db:migrate (first\_time)  
\*\* Invoke environment (first\_time)  
\*\* Execute environment  
\*\* Execute db:migrate  
rake aborted!  
The driver encountered an error:  
org.jruby.runtime.builtin.IRubyObject.setInstan  
ceVariable(Ljava/lang/String;Lorg/jruby/runtime/builtin/  
IRubyObject;)Lorg/jruby/  
runtime/builtin/IRubyObject;  
c:/jruby-1.5.0/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/ActiveRecord-JDBC-0.5/lib/  
active\_record/co  
nnection\_adapters/jdbc\_adapter.rb:265:in `initialize’

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**Author:** ![davidjrice](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/5e9695/32.png) [@davidjrice](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/davidjrice)\
**Post date:** [June 30, 2010, 8:37pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/cannot-connect-in-jruby-rails-for-newbie-using-jruby-1-5-0-final-and-rails-2-3-3/190921/2 "2010-06-30T20:37:18Z")

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David R. wrote:

> can’t connect nor db:migrate using jruby-1.5.0(final) and rails 2.3.3  
> on a windows XP machine

You might get better answers from the JRuby forum:

[http://www.ruby-forum.com/forum/30](http://www.ruby-forum.com/forum/30)