From: David Masover <ninja@...>
Date: 2008-06-10T12:59:55+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby-Postgres connection with libdbd-pg-ruby library

On Monday 09 June 2008 16:50:14 rickcasey wrote:
> I'm got Ruby on Rails 6.1 installed

...are you from the future?

Ruby 1.8.7 was recently released. There is a development version called 1.9, 
for what will eventually be Ruby 2.0.

Rails 2.1 was recently released.

> This is in a Debian Linux  2.6.18 environment

It would probably be much more helpful to say what version of Debian you're 
using -- for example, Debian Etch on x86, or Debian Sid on ARM, or whatever.

2.6.18 is the Linux Kernel version, not a debian version.

> , where Postgres 7.4.6 is 
> our database, already running as the backend database for another
> project that I want to connect to.

While I'm on version numbers, Postgres 8.2.7 and 8.3.1 is out.

> My sysadmin has installed the Debian library libdbd-pg-ruby but says
> there's no more documentation on it. Also he is reluctant to install
> the gems package described at the Ruby site as an example of how to
> connect Postgres.

You can always install the gem locally -- as in, on your workstation -- most 
gems come with documentation. The Debian library is probably just a 
repackaging of the gem.

And you can tell your sysadmin, Rubygems is a decent package manager in its 
own right -- if you're going to be doing a lot of Ruby development, you're 
probably going to want to use gems instead of Debian packages.