dbd-odbc gem not

[Ben Lieber]

I have an application that requires dbd-odbc gem in order to work. So I
have to following in the environment.rb:

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config.gem 'dbd-odbc', :version => '0.2.4', :lib => 'dbd/ODBC'
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I recently had to switch to a new computer, so new install of ubuntu,
rails, gems, etc. I installed dbd-odbc as you can see:

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$ gem list
...
dbd-odbc (0.2.4)
...
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my app keeps failing though, and if I run a rake, it tries to reinstall
the same gem each time, but then the app still doesn't see it:

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$ sudo rake gems:install
[trace ...]
no such file to load -- dbd-odbc
[trace ...]
gem install dbd-odbc --version "= 0.2.4"
Successfully installed dbd-odbc-0.2.4
1 gem installed
Installing ri documentation for dbd-odbc-0.2.4...
Installing RDoc documentation for dbd-odbc-0.2.4...
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Has anyone seen this behavior before?

Thanks for any help!

-Ben
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[Ben Lieber]

FYI: I un-installed and re-installed Ruby, rails, and Rubygems. Still
getting the SAME error. Any help would be rally appreciated, I've burned
so many hours on this stupid little problem now.

Thanks

[Dave Nolan]

It's not the gem that's missing. It's the Ruby ODBC bindings which you
need from here: http://www.ch-werner.de/rubyodbc/.

Once the correct Ruby bindings are installed, you can require 'odbc'
with no dependencies.

HTH,
Dave