How to connect to Oracle using JRuby & JDBC

Question

First approach: bare metal

require \'java\'
require \'rubygems\'
require \"c:/ruby/jruby-1.2.0/lib/ojdbc14.jar\"  # should be redundant, but tried it anyway
         


        

Answer 1

It turns out that my ojdbc14.jar file was corrupt.

Further, the jar file MUST be in the jruby/lib directory. Simply having it on the classpath does not work.