OS X Lion + Oracle + ruby-oci8 Gem Solution

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In my day job, we have need to interface with an Oracle database, from ruby. There’s a gem for that: ruby-oci8. The problem, since OS X Lion came out, is that installing the gem with it’s native extensions (i.e. compiled C code) fails. Why? Because the native extensions cannot be built using the default 64-bit architecture. 
 The solution? Build it for a 32-bit architecture!…

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