# Problems with Oracle dB oci8 connectivity

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/problems-with-oracle-db-oci8-connectivity/105104>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [May 25, 2007, 7:46pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/problems-with-oracle-db-oci8-connectivity/105104 "2007-05-25T19:46:25Z")\
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**Post date:** [May 25, 2007, 7:46pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/problems-with-oracle-db-oci8-connectivity/105104/1 "2007-05-25T19:46:25Z")

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Hello,  
I need to connect from my Windows server over to an Oracle database in  
Unix land. I finally got the Oracle client loaded on my server, and, I  
downloaded and installed the oci8 gem from rubyforge.

Here’s the top of my script.

require ‘oci8’  
require ‘dbi’

begin

# connect to the Oracle server

dbh = DBI.connect(“DBI:Oracle:graphicsdb-prod.bna.com/grpprod.bna.com”,  
“user”, “password”)  
…

I get the following error:

```
    "Unable to load driver 'Oracle.'"

```

I’d appreciate any help on this.

Thanks.