From: Jack Christensen <jack@...>
Date: 2010-02-22T06:18:26+09:00
Subject: Re: Prerelease of Ruby-pg 0.9.0

On 2/18/2010 11:19 PM, Michael Granger wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I'd like to announce the imminent release of version 0.9.0 of the
> ruby-pg library, the Ruby interface to the PostgreSQL RDBMS.
>
> The 0.9.0 version has some fairly significant changes to the backend,
> especially for Ruby 1.9.1 and Windows users, so we'd like to have people
> test it out in their own environments before we release it to the world.
>
> To that end, I've pushed up a prerelease version of the gem for people
> to test out. If you'd like to help out, you can install the prerelease
> like so:
>
>    gem install pg --prerelease
>
> You can check to see if you have the new version loaded by checking the
> PGconn::VERSION constant; it was added in this release, so if you have
> one and it's '0.9.0', then you're good.
>
> If you do decide to test, and you find a problem, please submit a ticket
> via the project's tracker here:
>
>    http://bitbucket.org/ged/ruby-pg/issues/new/
>
> If you test it and it works, I'd really appreciate a note to that effect
> either via personal email or in reply to this post, even if you just
> send "it worked" and your platform, Ruby version, and PostgreSQL version.
>
> There are very few changes to existing methods in this release, so we
> don't anticipate there will be much need to change existing code. If you
> want to see the details of what has changed, and can't wait for the
> release announcement sometime next week (barring any serious problems),
> the changeset history for the release can be found here:
>
>    http://bitbucket.org/ged/ruby-pg/changesets/9c65eb905416:7fbe4187e9e5/
>
> Thanks!
>
>    
I gave it a quick test on ruby 1.8.7 (2010-01-10 patchlevel 249) 
[i386-mingw32]. Worked fine.

Jack