From: Nick Black <nickblack1@...>
Date: 2006-11-16T18:51:54+09:00
Subject: Postgres/Postgres-pr - some confusion

Hello,

I'm doing some work using the ruby postgres lirbaries and I'm slightly
confused about  a few things.  I installed the postgres libraries
using:

gem install postgres posrgres-pr

If I use:

require 'rubygems'
require 'postgres-pr/connection'

I cannot use the following syntax:

  db = PGconn.connect($HOST, "", "", "", $DBNAME , $LOGIN, $PASS)


Where as when I use:

require 'rubygems'
require 'postgres'

This syntax is fine.  So there is obviously a difference between the
two libraries, but I'm kind of stuck for finding out exactly what the
differences are.  I need

Based on this documentation:

http://phrogz.net/rubylibs/rdoc/index.html

and the docs from my local gems directory, I've got some things
working.  But, when I try and the the PGConn.quote method, ruby
complains that there is no quote method, which according to the source
code I can find, there isnt, but which is listed in the documentation.
 So I'm wondering if  the documentation I have been looking at is
incorrect, if I am missing some libraries, or if I am not requiring
the correct libraries.  I thought that the postgres-pr library was a
wrapper for the postgres.c library?

Any explanation / direction to documenation would be really
appreciated.  Even just confirming if there is a PGconn.quote method
and which lirbary its in would be a great help!

CHeers

Nick