From: Tom Copeland <tom@...>
Date: 2006-06-21T22:24:48+09:00
Subject: Re: How to install Ruby Postgres Gem with a remote server

On Wed, 2006-06-21 at 21:04 +0900, Bing Tan wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> I have a slight problem. I have two machines. One is an app server and 
> the second is the database server running postgres. How do you install 
> the ruby postgres api on the app server to talk to the postgres on the 
> database server? I'm getting some errors on the installation.

You can install the pure Ruby driver using "gem install postgres-pr".
If you want to use the native driver (i.e., "gem install postgres")
you'll need to install the PostgreSQL header files and libraries on the
app server so that the gem installation process can compile the driver.

Yours,

Tom