# Slogging my way thru oracle, not adapter? gem install fails?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/slogging-my-way-thru-oracle-not-adapter-gem-install-fails/128249>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [February 6, 2008, 5:07am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/slogging-my-way-thru-oracle-not-adapter-gem-install-fails/128249 "2008-02-06T05:07:21Z")\
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**Author:** ![uncle](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/u/e5b9ba/32.png) [@uncle](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/uncle)\
**Post date:** [February 6, 2008, 5:07am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/slogging-my-way-thru-oracle-not-adapter-gem-install-fails/128249/1 "2008-02-06T05:07:21Z")

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\<ubuntu\_gutsy\> me@ubuntu:~/workspace/oracle/ro$ gem install  
activerecord-oci-adapter  
Bulk updating Gem source index for: [http://gems.rubyforge.org](http://gems.rubyforge.org)  
ERROR: While executing gem … (Gem::GemNotFoundException)  
Could not find activerecord-oci-adapter (\> 0) in any repository  
\<ubuntu\_gutsy\> me@ubuntu:~/workspace/oracle/ro$ rake db:migrate  
(in /home/me/workspace/oracle/ro)  
rake aborted!  
Please install the oci adapter: `gem install activerecord-oci-adapter`  
(no such file to load – active\_record/connection\_adapters/oci\_adapte  
r)

(See full trace by running task with --trace)

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**Author:** ![uncle](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/u/e5b9ba/32.png) [@uncle](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/uncle)\
**Post date:** [February 7, 2008, 12:27am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/slogging-my-way-thru-oracle-not-adapter-gem-install-fails/128249/2 "2008-02-07T00:27:23Z")

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On 2/5/08, uncle [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

> (no such file to load – active\_record/connection\_adapters/oci\_adapte  
> r)

Just try again, sometimes the gem servers are down.

–  
Greg D.  
[http://destiney.com/](http://destiney.com/)

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**Author:** ![uncle](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/u/e5b9ba/32.png) [@uncle](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/uncle)\
**Post date:** [February 8, 2008, 3:22pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/slogging-my-way-thru-oracle-not-adapter-gem-install-fails/128249/3 "2008-02-08T15:22:17Z")

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As deal with the problem?

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**Author:** ![uncle](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/u/e5b9ba/32.png) [@uncle](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/uncle)\
**Post date:** [February 18, 2008, 10:26am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/slogging-my-way-thru-oracle-not-adapter-gem-install-fails/128249/4 "2008-02-18T10:26:22Z")

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Please use the following command to install the oracle adapter:  
gem install activerecord-oracle-adapter --source  
[http://gems.rubyonrails.org](http://gems.rubyonrails.org)

See [Rails 2.0.1 RC2 - activerecord-oracle-adapter not found - Rails - Ruby-Forum](http://www.ruby-forum.com/topic/135231#new) .