activerecord-oracle_enhanced-adapter

Oracle enhanced adapter for ActiveRecord

DESCRIPTION

Oracle enhanced ActiveRecord adapter provides Oracle database access from Ruby on Rails applications. Oracle enhanced adapter can be used from Ruby on Rails versions between 2.3.x and 7.0 and it is working with Oracle database versions 10g and higher

INSTALLATION

Rails 7.0

Oracle enhanced adapter version 7.0 supports Rails 7.0 When using Ruby on Rails version 7.0 then in Gemfile include

# Use oracle as the database for Active Record
gem 'activerecord-oracle_enhanced-adapter', '~> 7.0.0'

Rails 6.1

Oracle enhanced adapter version 6.1 supports Rails 6.1. When using Ruby on Rails version 6.1 then in Gemfile include

# Use oracle as the database for Active Record
gem 'activerecord-oracle_enhanced-adapter', '~> 6.1.0'
gem 'ruby-oci8' # only for CRuby users

Rails 6.0

Oracle enhanced adapter version 6.0 supports Rails 6.0. When using Ruby on Rails version 6.0 then in Gemfile include

# Use oracle as the database for Active Record
gem 'activerecord-oracle_enhanced-adapter', '~> 6.0.0'
gem 'ruby-oci8' # only for CRuby users

Rails 5.2

Oracle enhanced adapter version 5.2 supports Rails 5.2. When using Ruby on Rails version 5.2 then in Gemfile include

# Use oracle as the database for Active Record
gem 'activerecord-oracle_enhanced-adapter', '~> 5.2.0'
gem 'ruby-oci8' # only for CRuby users

Rails 5.1

Oracle enhanced adapter version 1.8 just supports Rails 5.1 and does not support Rails 5.0 or lower version of Rails. When using Ruby on Rails version 5.1 then in Gemfile include

# Use oracle as the database for Active Record
gem 'activerecord-oracle_enhanced-adapter', '~> 1.8.0'
gem 'ruby-oci8' # only for CRuby users

Rails 5.0

Oracle enhanced adapter version 1.7 just supports Rails 5.0 and does not support Rails 4.2 or lower version of Rails. When using Ruby on Rails version 5.0 then in Gemfile include

# Use oracle as the database for Active Record
gem 'activerecord-oracle_enhanced-adapter', '~> 1.7.0'
gem 'ruby-oci8' # only for CRuby users

Rails 4.2

Oracle enhanced adapter version 1.6 just supports Rails 4.2 and does not support Rails 4.1 or lower version of Rails. When using Ruby on Rails version 4.2 then in Gemfile include

gem 'activerecord-oracle_enhanced-adapter', '~> 1.6.0'

where instead of 1.6.0 you can specify any other desired version. It is recommended to specify version with ~> which means that use specified version or later patch versions (in this example any later 1.6.x version but not 1.7.x version). Oracle enhanced adapter maintains API backwards compatibility during patch version upgrades and therefore it is safe to always upgrade to latest patch version.

Rails 4.0 and 4.1

Oracle enhanced adapter version 1.5 supports Rails 4.0 and 4.1 and does not support Rails 3.2 or lower version of Rails.

When using Ruby on Rails version 4.0 and 4.1 then in Gemfile include

gem 'activerecord-oracle_enhanced-adapter', '~> 1.5.0'

where instead of 1.5.0 you can specify any other desired version. It is recommended to specify version with ~> which means that use specified version or later patch versions (in this example any later 1.5.x version but not 1.6.x version). Oracle enhanced adapter maintains API backwards compatibility during patch version upgrades and therefore it is safe to always upgrade to latest patch version.

If you would like to use latest adapter version from github then specify

gem 'activerecord-oracle_enhanced-adapter', :git => 'git://github.com/rsim/oracle-enhanced.git'

If you are using CRuby >= 1.9.3 then you need to install ruby-oci8 gem as well as Oracle client, e.g. Oracle Instant Client. Include in Gemfile also ruby-oci8:

gem 'ruby-oci8', '~> 2.1.0'

If you are using JRuby then you need to download latest Oracle JDBC driver - either ojdbc7.jar or ojdbc6.jar for Java 7, ojdbc6.jar for Java 6 or ojdbc5.jar for Java 5. And copy this file to one of these locations:

in ./lib directory of Rails application
in some directory which is in PATH
in JRUBY_HOME/lib directory
or include path to JDBC driver jar file in Java CLASSPATH

After specifying necessary gems in Gemfile run

bundle install

to install the adapter (or later run bundle update to force updating to latest version).

Rails 3

When using Ruby on Rails version 3 then in Gemfile include

gem 'activerecord-oracle_enhanced-adapter', '~> 1.4.0'

where instead of 1.4.0 you can specify any other desired version. It is recommended to specify version with ~> which means that use specified version or later patch versions (in this example any later 1.4.x version but not 1.5.x version). Oracle enhanced adapter maintains API backwards compatibility during patch version upgrades and therefore it is safe to always upgrade to latest patch version.

If you would like to use latest adapter version from github then specify

gem 'activerecord-oracle_enhanced-adapter', :git => 'git://github.com/rsim/oracle-enhanced.git'

If you are using MRI 1.8 or 1.9 Ruby implementation then you need to install ruby-oci8 gem as well as Oracle client, e.g. Oracle Instant Client. Include in Gemfile also ruby-oci8:

gem 'ruby-oci8', '~> 2.1.0'

If you are using JRuby then you need to download latest Oracle JDBC driver - either ojdbc6.jar for Java 6 or ojdbc5.jar for Java 5. And copy this file to one of these locations:

in ./lib directory of Rails application
in some directory which is in PATH
in JRUBY_HOME/lib directory
or include path to JDBC driver jar file in Java CLASSPATH

After specifying necessary gems in Gemfile run

bundle install

to install the adapter (or later run bundle update to force updating to latest version).

Rails 2.3

If you don't use Bundler in Rails 2 application then you need to specify gems in config/environment.rb, e.g.

Rails::Initializer.run do |config|
  # ...
  config.gem 'activerecord-oracle_enhanced-adapter', :lib => 'active_record/connection_adapters/oracle_enhanced_adapter'
  config.gem 'ruby-oci8'
  # ...
end

But it is recommended to use Bundler for gem version management also for Rails 2.3 applications (search for instructions in Google).

Without Rails and Bundler

If you want to use ActiveRecord and Oracle enhanced adapter without Rails and Bundler then install it just as a gem:

gem install activerecord-oracle_enhanced-adapter

USAGE

Database connection

In Rails application config/database.yml use oracle_enhanced as adapter name, e.g.

development:
  adapter: oracle_enhanced
  database: xe
  username: user
  password: secret

If you're connecting to a service name, indicate the service with a leading slash on the database parameter:

development:
  adapter: oracle_enhanced
  database: /xe
  username: user
  password: secret

If TNS_ADMIN environment variable is pointing to directory where tnsnames.ora file is located then you can use TNS connection name in database parameter. Otherwise you can directly specify database host, port (defaults to 1521) and database name in the following way:

development:
  adapter: oracle_enhanced
  host: localhost
  port: 1521
  database: xe
  username: user
  password: secret

or you can use Oracle specific format in database parameter:

development:
  adapter: oracle_enhanced
  database: //localhost:1521/xe
  username: user
  password: secret

or you can even use Oracle specific TNS connection description:

development:
  adapter: oracle_enhanced
  database: "(DESCRIPTION=
    (ADDRESS_LIST=(ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=tcp)(HOST=localhost)(PORT=1521)))
    (CONNECT_DATA=(SERVICE_NAME=xe))
  )"
  username: user
  password: secret

If you choose to specify your database connection via the DATABASE_URL environment variable, note that the adapter name uses a dash instead of an underscore:

DATABASE_URL=oracle-enhanced://localhost/XE

You can also specify a connection string via the DATABASE_URL, as long as it doesn't have any whitespace:

DATABASE_URL=oracle-enhanced://user:secret@connection-string/(DESCRIPTION=(ADDRESS_LIST=(ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=tcp)(HOST=localhost)(PORT=1521)))(CONNECT_DATA=(SERVICE_NAME=xe)))

If you deploy JRuby on Rails application in Java application server that supports JNDI connections then you can specify JNDI connection as well:

development:
  adapter: oracle_enhanced
  jndi: "jdbc/jndi_connection_name"

To use jndi with Tomcat you need to set the accessToUnderlyingConnectionAllowed to true property on the pool. See the Tomcat Documentation for reference.

You can find other available database.yml connection parameters in oracle_enhanced_adapter.rb. There are many NLS settings as well as some other Oracle session settings.

Adapter settings

If you want to change Oracle enhanced adapter default settings then create initializer file e.g. config/initializers/oracle.rb specify there necessary defaults, e.g.:

# It is recommended to set time zone in TZ environment variable so that the same timezone will be used by Ruby and by Oracle session
ENV['TZ'] = 'UTC'

ActiveSupport.on_load(:active_record) do
  ActiveRecord::ConnectionAdapters::OracleEnhancedAdapter.class_eval do
    # true and false will be stored as 'Y' and 'N'
    self.emulate_booleans_from_strings = true

    # start primary key sequences from 1 (and not 10000) and take just one next value in each session
    self.default_sequence_start_value = "1 NOCACHE INCREMENT BY 1"

    # Use old visitor for Oracle 12c database
    self.use_old_oracle_visitor = true

    # other settings ...
  end
end

In case of Rails 2 application you do not need to use ActiveSupport.on_load(:active_record) do ... end around settings code block.

See other adapter settings in oracle_enhanced_adapter.rb.

Legacy schema support

If you want to put Oracle enhanced adapter on top of existing schema tables then there are several methods how to override ActiveRecord defaults, see example:

class Employee < ActiveRecord::Base
  # specify schema and table name
  self.table_name = "hr.hr_employees"

  # specify primary key name
  self.primary_key = "employee_id"

  # specify sequence name
  self.sequence_name = "hr.hr_employee_s"

  # set which DATE columns should be converted to Ruby Date using ActiveRecord Attribute API
  # Starting from Oracle enhanced adapter 1.7 Oracle `DATE` columns are mapped to Ruby `Date` by default.
  attribute :hired_on, :date
  attribute :birth_date_on, :date

  # set which DATE columns should be converted to Ruby Time using ActiveRecord Attribute API
  attribute :last_login_time, :datetime

  # set which VARCHAR2 columns should be converted to true and false using ActiveRecord Attribute API
  attribute :manager, :boolean
  attribute :active, :boolean

  # set which columns should be ignored in ActiveRecord
  ignore_table_columns :attribute1, :attribute2
end

You can also access remote tables over database link using

self.table_name "hr_employees@db_link"

Examples for Rails 4.x

class Employee < ActiveRecord::Base
  # specify schema and table name
  self.table_name = "hr.hr_employees"

  # specify primary key name
  self.primary_key = "employee_id"

  # specify sequence name
  self.sequence_name = "hr.hr_employee_s"

  # If you're using Rails 4.2 or earlier you can do this

  # set which DATE columns should be converted to Ruby Date
  set_date_columns :hired_on, :birth_date_on

  # set which DATE columns should be converted to Ruby Time
  set_datetime_columns :last_login_time

  # set which VARCHAR2 columns should be converted to true and false
  set_boolean_columns :manager, :active

  # set which columns should be ignored in ActiveRecord
  ignore_table_columns :attribute1, :attribute2
end

Examples for Rails 3.2 and lower version of Rails

class Employee < ActiveRecord::Base
  # specify schema and table name
  set_table_name "hr.hr_employees"

  # specify primary key name
  set_primary_key "employee_id"

  # specify sequence name
  set_sequence_name "hr.hr_employee_s"

  # set which DATE columns should be converted to Ruby Date
  set_date_columns :hired_on, :birth_date_on

  # set which DATE columns should be converted to Ruby Time
  set_datetime_columns :last_login_time

  # set which VARCHAR2 columns should be converted to true and false
  set_boolean_columns :manager, :active

  # set which columns should be ignored in ActiveRecord
  ignore_table_columns :attribute1, :attribute2
end

You can also access remote tables over database link using

set_table_name "hr_employees@db_link"

Custom create, update and delete methods

If you have legacy schema and you are not allowed to do direct INSERTs, UPDATEs and DELETEs in legacy schema tables and need to use existing PL/SQL procedures for create, updated, delete operations then you should add ruby-plsql gem to your application, include ActiveRecord::OracleEnhancedProcedures in your model and then define custom create, update and delete methods, see example:

class Employee < ActiveRecord::Base
  include ActiveRecord::OracleEnhancedProcedures

  # when defining create method then return ID of new record that will be assigned to id attribute of new object
  set_create_method do
    plsql.employees_pkg.create_employee(
      :p_first_name => first_name,
      :p_last_name => last_name,
      :p_employee_id => nil
    )[:p_employee_id]
  end

  set_update_method do
    plsql.employees_pkg.update_employee(
      :p_employee_id => id,
      :p_first_name => first_name,
      :p_last_name => last_name
    )
  end

  set_delete_method do
    plsql.employees_pkg.delete_employee(
      :p_employee_id => id
    )
  end
end

In addition in config/initializers/oracle.rb initializer specify that ruby-plsql should use ActiveRecord database connection:

plsql.activerecord_class = ActiveRecord::Base

Oracle CONTEXT index support

Every edition of Oracle database includes Oracle Text option for free which provides several full text indexing capabilities. Therefore in Oracle database case you don’t need external full text indexing and searching engines which can simplify your application deployment architecture.

To create simple single column index create migration with, e.g.

add_context_index :posts, :title

and you can remove context index with

remove_context_index :posts, :title

Include in class definition

has_context_index

and then you can do full text search with

Post.contains(:title, 'word')

You can create index on several columns (which will generate additional stored procedure for providing XML document with specified columns to indexer):

add_context_index :posts, [:title, :body]

And you can search either in all columns or specify in which column you want to search (as first argument you need to specify first column name as this is the column which is referenced during index creation):

Post.contains(:title, 'word')
Post.contains(:title, 'word within title')
Post.contains(:title, 'word within body')

See Oracle Text documentation for syntax that you can use in CONTAINS function in SELECT WHERE clause.

You can also specify some dummy main column name when creating multiple column index as well as specify to update index automatically after each commit (as otherwise you need to synchronize index manually or schedule periodic update):

add_context_index :posts, [:title, :body], :index_column => :all_text, :sync => 'ON COMMIT'

Post.contains(:all_text, 'word')

Or you can specify that index should be updated when specified columns are updated (e.g. in ActiveRecord you can specify to trigger index update when created_at or updated_at columns are updated). Otherwise index is updated only when main index column is updated.

add_context_index :posts, [:title, :body], :index_column => :all_text,
  :sync => 'ON COMMIT', :index_column_trigger_on => [:created_at, :updated_at]

And you can even create index on multiple tables by providing SELECT statements which should be used to fetch necessary columns from related tables:

add_context_index :posts,
  [:title, :body,
  # specify aliases always with AS keyword
  "SELECT comments.author AS comment_author, comments.body AS comment_body FROM comments WHERE comments.post_id = :id"
  ],
  :name => 'post_and_comments_index',
  :index_column => :all_text,
  :index_column_trigger_on => [:updated_at, :comments_count],
  :sync => 'ON COMMIT'

# search in any table columns
Post.contains(:all_text, 'word')
# search in specified column
Post.contains(:all_text, "aaa within title")
Post.contains(:all_text, "bbb within comment_author")

Please note that index_column must be a real column in your database and it's value will be overridden every time your index_column_trigger_on columns are changed. So, do not use columns with real data as index_column.

Index column can be created as:

add_column :posts, :all_text, :string, limit: 2, comment: 'Service column for context search index'

Oracle virtual columns support

Since version R11G1 Oracle database allows adding computed Virtual Columns to the table. They can be used as normal fields in the queries, in the foreign key contstraints and to partitioning data.

To define virtual column you can use virtual method in the create_table block, providing column expression in the :as option:

create_table :mytable do |t|
  t.decimal :price, :precision => 15, :scale => 2
  t.decimal :quantity, :precision => 15, :scale => 2
  t.virtual :amount, :as => 'price * quantity'
end

Oracle tries to predict type of the virtual column, based on its expression but sometimes it is necessary to state type explicitly. This can be done by providing :type option to the virtual method:

# ...
t.virtual :amount_2, :as => 'ROUND(price * quantity,2)', :type => :decimal, :precision => 15, :scale => 2
t.virtual :amount_str, :as => "TO_CHAR(quantity) || ' x ' || TO_CHAR(price) || ' USD = ' || TO_CHAR(quantity*price) || ' USD'",
    :type => :string, :limit => 100
# ...

It is possible to add virtual column to existing table:

add_column :mytable, :amount_4, :virtual, :as => 'ROUND(price * quantity,4)', :precision => 38, :scale => 4

You can use the same options here as in the create_table virtual method.

Changing virtual columns is also possible:

change_column :mytable, :amount, :virtual, :as => 'ROUND(price * quantity,0)', :type => :integer

Virtual columns allowed in the foreign key constraints. For example it can be used to force foreign key constraint on polymorphic association:

create_table :comments do |t|
  t.string :subject_type
  t.integer :subject_id
  t.virtual :subject_photo_id, :as => "CASE subject_type WHEN 'Photo' THEN subject_id END"
  t.virtual :subject_event_id, :as => "CASE subject_type WHEN 'Event' THEN subject_id END"
end

add_foreign_key :comments, :photos, :column => :subject_photo_id
add_foreign_key :comments, :events, :column => :subject_event_id

For backward compatibility reasons it is possible to use :default option in the create_table instead of :as option. But this is deprecated and may be removed in the future version.

Oracle specific schema statements and data types

There are several additional schema statements and data types available that you can use in database migrations:

add_foreign_key and remove_foreign_key for foreign key definition (and they are also dumped in db/schema.rb)
add_synonym and remove_synonym for synonym definition (and they are also dumped in db/schema.rb)
You can create table with primary key trigger using :primary_key_trigger => true option for create_table
You can define columns with raw type which maps to Oracle's RAW type
You can add table and column comments with :comment option
Default tablespaces can be specified for tables, indexes, clobs and blobs, for example:

ActiveRecord::ConnectionAdapters::OracleEnhancedAdapter.default_tablespaces =
  {:clob => 'TS_LOB', :blob => 'TS_LOB', :index => 'TS_INDEX', :table => 'TS_DATA'}

Switching to another schema

There are some requirements to connect to Oracle database first and switch to another user. Oracle enhanced adapter supports schema: option.

Note: Oracle enhanced adapter does not take care if the database user specified in username: parameter has appropriate privilege to select, insert, update and delete database objects owned by the schema specified in schema: parameter.

development:
  adapter: oracle_enhanced
  database: xe
  username: user
  password: secret
  schema: tableowner

Timeouts

By default, OCI libraries set a connect timeout of 60 seconds (as of v12.0), and do not set a data receive timeout.

While this may desirable if you process queries that take several minutes to complete, it may also lead to resource exhaustion if connections are teared down improperly during a query, e.g. by misbehaving networking equipment that does not inform both peers of connection reset. In this scenario, the OCI libraries will wait indefinitely for data to arrive, thus blocking indefinitely the application that initiated the query.

You can set a connect timeout, in seconds, using the following TNSNAMES parameters:

CONNECT_TIMEOUT
TCP_CONNECT_TIMEOUT

Example setting a 5 seconds connect timeout:

development:
  database: "(DESCRIPTION=
    (ADDRESS_LIST=(ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=tcp)(HOST=localhost)(PORT=1521)))
    (CONNECT_TIMEOUT=5)(TCP_CONNECT_TIMEOUT=5)
    (CONNECT_DATA=(SERVICE_NAME=xe))
  )"

You should set a timeout value dependant on your network topology, and the time needed to establish a TCP connection with your ORACLE server. In real-world scenarios, a value larger than 5 should be avoided.

You can set receive and send timeouts, in seconds, using the following TNSNAMES parameters:

RECV_TIMEOUT - the maximum time the OCI libraries should wait for data to arrive on the TCP socket. Internally, it is implemented through a setsockopt(s, SOL_SOCKET, SO_RCVTIMEO). You should set this value to an integer larger than the server-side execution time of your longest-running query.
SEND_TIMEOUT the maximum time the OCI libraries should wait for write operations to complete on the TCP socket. Internally, it is implemented through a setsockopt(s, SOL_SOCKET, SO_SNDTIMEO). Values larger than 5 are a sign of poorly performing network, and as such it should be avoided.

Example setting a 60 seconds receive timeout and 5 seconds send timeout:

development:
  database: "(DESCRIPTION=
    (ADDRESS_LIST=(ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=tcp)(HOST=localhost)(PORT=1521)))
    (RECV_TIMEOUT=60)(SEND_TIMEOUT=5)
    (CONNECT_DATA=(SERVICE_NAME=xe))
  )"

Example setting the above send/recv timeout plus a 5 seconds connect timeout:

development:
  database: "(DESCRIPTION=
    (ADDRESS_LIST=(ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=tcp)(HOST=localhost)(PORT=1521)))
    (CONNECT_TIMEOUT=5)(TCP_CONNECT_TIMEOUT=5)
    (RECV_TIMEOUT=60)(SEND_TIMEOUT=5)
    (CONNECT_DATA=(SERVICE_NAME=xe))
  )"

Schema cache

rails db:schema:cache:dump generates db/schema_cache.yml to avoid queries for Oracle database dictionary, which could help your application response time if it takes time to look up database structure.

if any database structure changed by migrations, execute rails db:schema:cache:dump again and restart Rails server to reflect changes.

UPGRADE

Upgrade Rails 5.1 or older version to Rails 5.2

emulate_booleans_from_strings = true change

VARCHAR2(1) sql type is not registered as Type:Boolean even if emulate_booleans_from_strings = true

Configure each model attribute as follows:

class Post < ActiveRecord::Base
  attribute :is_default, :boolean
end

Remove OracleEnhancedAdapter.cache_columns to use Rails db:schema:cache:dump

Refer https://github.com/rsim/oracle-enhanced#schema-cache

Upgrade Rails 5.0 or older version to Rails 5.1

If your application gets ORA-01000: maximum open cursors exceeded after upgrading to Rails 5.1, check these two values and configure open_cursors parameter value at Oracle database instance is larger than :statement_limit value at database.yml.

open_cursors value at Oracle database instance

SQL> select name,value from v$parameter where name = 'open_cursors';

NAME
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
VALUE
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
open_cursors
1200

:statement_limit value at database.yml

Since Oracle enhanced adapter 1.8.0 this default value changed from 250 to 1000.

Upgrade Rails 4.2 or older version to Rails 5

If your Oracle table columns have been created for Rails :datetime attributes in Rails 4.2 or earlier, they need to migrate to :datetime in Rails 5 using one of two following ways:

Rails migration code example: ruby change_column :posts, :created_at, :datetime change_column :posts, :updated_at, :datetime

SQL statement example sql ALTER TABLE "POSTS" MODIFY "CREATED_AT" TIMESTAMP ALTER TABLE "POSTS" MODIFY "UPDATED_AT" TIMESTAMP

In Rails 5 without running this migration or sql statement, these attributes will be handled as Rails :date type.

TROUBLESHOOTING

What to do if Oracle enhanced adapter is not working?

Please verify that

Oracle Instant Client is installed correctly Can you connect to database using sqlnet?

ruby-oci8 is installed correctly Try something like:

ruby -rubygems -e "require 'oci8'; OCI8.new('username','password','database').exec('select * from dual') do |r| puts r.join(','); end"

to verify that ruby-oci8 is working

Verify that activerecord-oracle_enhanced-adapter is working from irb

require 'rubygems'
gem 'activerecord'
gem 'activerecord-oracle_enhanced-adapter'
require 'active_record'
ActiveRecord::Base.establish_connection(:adapter => "oracle_enhanced", :database => "database",:username => "user",:password => "password")

and see if it is successful (use your correct database, username and password)

What to do if Oracle enhanced adapter is not working with Phusion Passenger?

Oracle Instant Client and ruby-oci8 requires that several environment variables are set:

LD_LIBRARY_PATH (on Linux) or DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH (on Mac) should point to Oracle Instant Client directory (where Oracle client shared libraries are located)
TNS_ADMIN should point to directory where tnsnames.ora file is located
NLS_LANG should specify which territory and language NLS settings to use and which character set to use (e.g. "AMERICAN_AMERICA.UTF8")

If this continues to throw "OCI Library Initialization Error (OCIError)", you might also need

ORACLE_HOME set to full Oracle client installation directory

When Apache with Phusion Passenger (mod_passenger or previously mod_rails) is used for Rails application deployment then by default Ruby is launched without environment variables that you have set in shell profile scripts (e.g. .profile). Therefore it is necessary to set environment variables in one of the following ways:

Create wrapper script as described in Phusion blog or RayApps::Blog
Set environment variables in the file which is used by Apache before launching Apache worker processes - on Linux it typically is envvars file (look in apachectl or apache2ctl script where it is looking for envvars file) or /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/org.apache.httpd.plist on Mac OS X. See the following discussion thread for more hints.

What to do if my application is stuck?

If you see established TCP connections that do not exchange data, and you are unable to terminate your application using a TERM or an INT signal, and you are forced to use the KILL signal, then the OCI libraries may be waiting indefinitely for a network read operation to complete.

See the Timeouts section above.

RUNNING TESTS

See RUNNING_TESTS.md for information how to set up environment and run Oracle enhanced adapter unit tests.

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