# Ruby-odbc giving memory access error

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-odbc-giving-memory-access-error/116018>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [October 1, 2007, 5:42pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-odbc-giving-memory-access-error/116018 "2007-10-01T17:42:02Z")\
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**Author:** ![deanhiller](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/df705f/32.png) [@deanhiller](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/deanhiller)\
**Post date:** [October 1, 2007, 5:42pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-odbc-giving-memory-access-error/116018/1 "2007-10-01T17:42:02Z")

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I’m using ruby-odbc on a macbook pro, trying to connect to an Oracle  
database (10g), using Actual Technologies ODBC driver, I was working  
through bugs until I got to this:

$ irb

> > require ‘odbc’  
> > =\> true
> 
> > conn = ODBC::connect(‘mySID’, ‘user’, ‘pass’)  
> > =\> #ODBC::Database:0x10bf800
> 
> > stmt = conn.indexes(‘MY\_TABLE’)  
> > Invalid memory access of location 00000000 eip=0131509f  
> > (irb):3: [BUG] Bus Error  
> > ruby 1.8.6 (2007-03-13) [i686-darwin8.9.1]