I can only halfway connect to oracle

Gurus...

If I set up my project to use SQLite (so it can come up) and attempt to connect to oracle via:

oracle_connect = $application_properties[$connect_string] oracle_conn = OCI8.new(oracle_id, oracle_password, oracle_connect)

where oracle_connect equals '//bobs.big.boy.gov:1521/D09' (with or w/o the introductory //) my rails app connect to the oracle database just fine.

If I convert my database.yml file to point to oracle however with the following config:

development:   adapter: oracle   database: pst_development   password:   host: bobs.big.boy.gov:1521/D09 #with or w/o the introductory //   username: foo   password: foo

When I try and run my initial migration to get setup I see the following error:

rake aborted! ORA-12154: TNS:could not resolve the connect identifier specified

Help please!