From: will <will@...>
Date: 2005-04-26T22:34:26+09:00
Subject: ruby postgres problems

I have some problems with dbi which could be down to a problem 
installing the postgres module.  The postgres module is installed, or so 
I thought:

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[root@server /]# gem install postgres
Attempting local installation of 'postgres'
Local gem file not found: postgres*.gem
Attempting remote installation of 'postgres'
Building native extensions.  This could take a while...
ruby extconf.rb install postgres
checking for cygwin32_socket() in -lwsock32... no
checking for socket() in -lsocket... no
checking for gethostbyname() in -linet... no
checking for gethostbyname() in -lnsl... yes
checking for sys/un.h... yes
checking for socket()... yes
checking for hsterror()... no
checking for gethostname()... yes
checking for PQsetdbLogin() in -lpq... yes
checking for PQsetClientEncoding()... yes
checking for pg_encoding_to_char()... yes
checking for PQescapeString()... yes
creating Makefile

make
gcc -fPIC   -I. -I/usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/i686-linux 
-I/usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/i686-linux -I. -DHAVE_SYS_UN_H -DHAVE_SOCKET 
-DHAVE_GETHOSTNAME -DHAVE_PQSETCLIENTENCODING -DHAVE_PG_ENCODING_TO_CHAR 
-DHAVE_PQESCAPESTRING  -c postgres.c
gcc -shared  -L'/usr/local/lib' -Wl,-R'/usr/local/lib' -o postgres.so 
postgres.o  -lpq -lnsl  -ldl -lcrypt -lm   -lc

make install
make: Nothing to be done for `install'.
Successfully installed postgres-0.7.1
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However, a very simple program:

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#!/usr/bin/ruby

require "postgres"
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fails:

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[will@host will]$ ./pg.rb
./pg.rb:3:in `require': No such file to load -- postgres (LoadError)
         from ./pg.rb:3
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Any ideas what is wrong here?