# Help with SQLite3-ruby, please

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/help-with-sqlite3-ruby-please/179040>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [November 16, 2009, 12:27pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/help-with-sqlite3-ruby-please/179040 "2009-11-16T12:27:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![amcniece](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/8edcca/32.png) [@amcniece](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/amcniece)\
**Post date:** [November 16, 2009, 12:27pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/help-with-sqlite3-ruby-please/179040/1 "2009-11-16T12:27:34Z")

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Hello everybody! I’m Andy and I have a BIG and nasty problem with  
SQLite-ruby module and I hope for some help here. The main problem is  
that I am forced to use RUBY 1.8.0, because I’m building a plugin for  
SketchUp (which uses Ruby 1.8.0 and no way to update it).  
As gems can not be installed under Sketchup, i made a trick: installed  
sqlite3-ruby gem under standard ruby and I toke all files with their  
dependences. I am not 100% sure that I toke everything was needed and  
those files are the right ones.I downloaded slqite3.dll version 6.16 and  
tried to make things work. Well… somehow it works, but it gives me  
errors.  
I am forced to make to requests in my ruby file:  
require ‘sqlite3.rb’ -this should normally be  
require ‘sqlite3.dll’ -i think this should load from ruby extension when  
it searches for driver, but if I don’t ask for it, it raise this error:  
“no driver for sqlite3 found”.  
If i make both requests, on first run, I recieve an other error: “The  
specified procedure could not be found. - Init\_sqlite3”, but, when I  
run it second time, it works!  
I do not understand what is going on here.

Please help! I need a working SQLite3-ruby module, for RUBY 1.8.0, which  
contains all dependences and can be used under SketchUp. And I do not  
know what version sqlite3.dll to search.  
Thank you.