From: Dave Howell <groups@...>
Date: 2006-01-27T02:30:24+09:00
Subject: Re: postgres database


On Jan 24, 2006, at 18:23, Pat Maddox wrote:

> You need to have the postgres adapter installed.  I made a blog
> post[1] that covers installation.  It's pretty easy, just have to do a
> few steps beyond the 'gem install postgres'.  You can probably skip
> the step to symlink libpq-fe.h because I think that's FreeBSD
> specific.  Naturally, you'll need to make sure you use the correct
> paths for postgresql's include/lib dirs, where your gems are located,
> etc.

A suggestion to the wider PostgreSQL-using Ruby populace; I was 
somewhat confused until I figured out that I had to install at least 
part of Postgres (bits of library files, I think) on the machine 
running Ruby in order to talk to the database that's running on a 
different system.

If somebody should happen to write/update/expand upon the instructions 
for installing Postgres support into Ruby to include the case where the 
Ruby code is being installed and/or running on a system without local 
Postgres, that'd probably be a good thing . . . :) Maybe some way to 
permanently bind the libraries into the gem-installed Ruby bits?

[Stop me if I start talking nonsense, I'm not entirely sure what I'm 
talking about here.]