# Ruby and Oracle 10g

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-and-oracle-10g/64664>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [August 15, 2006, 2:13pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-and-oracle-10g/64664 "2006-08-15T14:13:38Z")\
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**Author:** ![aidy](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/eada6e/32.png) [@aidy](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/aidy)\
**Post date:** [August 15, 2006, 2:13pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-and-oracle-10g/64664/1 "2006-08-15T14:13:38Z")

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Is it possible to use Ruby to connect to an oracle 10g db? The latest  
stable class seems to be Ruby/OCI8.

Cheers

Aidy

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**Author:** ![aidy](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/eada6e/32.png) [@aidy](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/aidy)\
**Post date:** [August 15, 2006, 2:13pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-and-oracle-10g/64664/2 "2006-08-15T14:13:39Z")

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aidy wrote:

> Is it possible to use Ruby to connect to an oracle 10g db? The latest  
> stable class seems to be Ruby/OCI8.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Aidy

Yup, the OCI8 works fairly well with 10g. I haven’t had any issues yet.

–  
Ola B. ([http://ola-bini.blogspot.com](http://ola-bini.blogspot.com))  
JvYAML, RbYAML, JRuby and Jatha contributor  
System Developer, Karolinska Institutet ([http://www.ki.se](http://www.ki.se))  
OLogix Consulting ([http://www.ologix.com](http://www.ologix.com))

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**Author:** ![aidy](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/eada6e/32.png) [@aidy](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/aidy)\
**Post date:** [August 15, 2006, 2:14pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-and-oracle-10g/64664/3 "2006-08-15T14:14:39Z")

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aidy wrote:

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Same. I’ve had no problems using 10g with the oci adapter