From: Michael Garriss <mgarriss@...>
Date: 2003-08-01T10:07:17+09:00
Subject: Re: DBI-PG problems

I'm not sure but I don't think you would have made it through the 
install process if libpg in not found.  Try adding the postgres ruby 
package...that has to be it.

alex fenton wrote:

> I had problems like this after installing DBD-Pg on Linux & on Cygwin 
> when the library files for Postgres itself weren't getting found in 
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH. Make sure that the system can find its way to 
> /usr/local/postgres/lib (or whatever - it should have files such as 
> libpq.so in it). Tweak /etc/ld.so.conf (or the equivalent on OS X - 
> sorry, I'm not familiar with how library paths work on that) or 
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH, as you need.
>
> HTH
> alex
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> culley harrelson wrote:
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>> I am having trouble with DBI-Pg on os X (ruby 1.6.7).  I installed it 
>> successfully using config --with=dbi,dbd_pg but when I try to 
>> establish a connection I get:
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>> 704 $ ./test.rb
>> /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.6/dbi/dbi.rb:502:in `load_driver': Could 
>> not load driver (No such file to load -- postgres) (DBI::InterfaceError)
>>         from /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.6/dbi/dbi.rb:392:in 
>> `_get_full_driver'
>>         from /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.6/dbi/dbi.rb:372:in `connect'
>>         from ./test.rb:4
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