From: Kevin Williams Date: 2007-11-24T10:14:01+09:00 Subject: Re: Getting Ruby to work with Postgres on Windows XP I use the "ruby-postgres-0.7.1.2006.04.06-mswin32" gem all the time, no compiler required. I've never tried postgres-pr, but I would assume the C extension would be a bit more performant. Why not install the binary gem instead of trying to install from source? Dillip Kumar wrote: > Thank you both. Works great with postgres-pr. > > I can't wait till I get off this Windows box :-) > > Dillip > > Damjan Rems wrote: >> >> I use postgres-pr gem and it works fine with rails. As I remember >> optimized driver does not work on Windows. >> >> When I want to connect without ActiveRecord (Rails) I use ruby DBI gem. >> >> Both can be found on RubyForge. >> >> >> by >> TheR -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.