Problem with OCI in Apache

My Application runs fine when run on webrick, but throws up database
error when run from apache. this is the copy of the FULL TRACE i get

/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/oci8.rb:131:in create' /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/oci8.rb:131:ininitialize’
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.13.2/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/oci_adapter.rb:515:in
new_connection' /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.13.2/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/oci_adapter.rb:545:ininitialize’
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.13.2/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/oci_adapter.rb:35:in
oci_connection' /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.13.2/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/abstract/connection_specification.rb:145:inconnection_without_query_cache=’
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.13.2/lib/active_record/query_cache.rb:54:in
connection=' /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.13.2/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/abstract/connection_specification.rb:106:inretrieve_connection’
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.13.2/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/abstract/connection_specification.rb:20:in
connection' /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.13.2/lib/active_record/base.rb:734:incolumns’
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.13.2/lib/active_record/base.rb:1663:in
attributes_from_column_definition' /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.13.2/lib/active_record/base.rb:1185:ininitialize_without_callbacks’
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.13.2/lib/active_record/callbacks.rb:236:in
initialize' #{RAILS_ROOT}/app/controllers/login_controller.rb:15:inlogin’
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.11.2/lib/action_controller/base.rb:853:in
perform_action_without_filters' /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.11.2/lib/action_controller/filters.rb:332:inperform_action_without_benchmark’
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.11.2/lib/action_controller/benchmarking.rb:69:in
perform_action_without_rescue' /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/benchmark.rb:293:inmeasure’
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.11.2/lib/action_controller/benchmarking.rb:69:in
perform_action_without_rescue' /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.11.2/lib/action_controller/rescue.rb:82:inperform_action’
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.11.2/lib/action_controller/base.rb:369:in
process_without_session_management_support' /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.11.2/lib/action_controller/session_management.rb:116:inprocess’
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-1.0.0/lib/dispatcher.rb:38:in
dispatch' /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-1.0.0/lib/fcgi_handler.rb:141:inprocess_request’
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-1.0.0/lib/fcgi_handler.rb:53:in
process!' /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/fcgi-0.8.6.1/./fcgi.rb:600:ineach_cgi’
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/fcgi-0.8.6.1/./fcgi.rb:597:in
each_cgi' /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-1.0.0/lib/fcgi_handler.rb:52:inprocess!’
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-1.0.0/lib/fcgi_handler.rb:22:in
`process!’
/www/todolist/public/dispatch.fcgi:24

My Application runs fine when run on webrick, but throws up database
error when run from apache. this is the copy of the FULL TRACE i get

You’re probably looking at environment variable problems (as in
something that’s set in your environment on the command-line isn’t set
in Apache). Two likely candidates are ORACLE_HOME and LD_LIBRARY_PATH.
Apache’s SetEnv directive (which comes from mod_env, IIRC) may help with
this.

Rick

http://www.rickbradley.com MUPRN: 160
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