Re: ruby connect

I'm trying to connect ruby to postgres on ubuntu and the only link I found that has the library is down. Does anyone have the postgres library for ruby? Or direct me to it?

Justin Darby Carrera
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Hi,

> I’m trying to connect ruby to postgres on ubuntu and the only link I found
> that has the library is down. Does anyone have the postgres library for
> ruby? Or direct me to it?
>
>
You would be better off searching for the drivers on rubyforge.org. Please
do not send non-Postgres-development related queries on this list.

Regards,
Nikhils
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Hi,

I'm trying to connect ruby to postgres on ubuntu and the only link I found that has the library is down. Does anyone have the postgres library for ruby? Or direct me to it?

Hi,

I'm trying to connect ruby to postgres on ubuntu and the only link I found that has the library is down. Does anyone have the postgres library for ruby? Or direct me to it?

On Mon, 2009-06-01 at 09:29 -0400, Justin Carrera wrote:
> Does anyone have the postgres library for ruby?

http://rubyforge.org/projects/ruby-pg

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Justin Carrera wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to connect ruby to postgres on ubuntu and the only link I
> found that has the library is down.

Details of the link might have helped the other readers on this list.
The owner might not know.

> Does anyone have the postgres
> library for ruby? Or direct me to it?

I think this is the current project:
http://rubyforge.org/projects/ruby-pg/

It would help if it came up prominently on searches for "postgresql" though.

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Justin Carrera wrote:
> I will remember that for next time.
>
> Thank you for the link.
>
> I tried installing the gem but unsuccessful...
>
> root(at)CodeHo:/home/justin/Documents/ruby# gem install postgres -- --with-pgsql-include=/opt/PostgreSQL/8.3/include --with-pgsql-lib=/opt/PostgreSQL/8.3/lib
> Building native extensions. This could take a while...
> ERROR: Error installing postgres:
> ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.
>
> /usr/bin/ruby1.9 extconf.rb install postgres -- --with-pgsql-include=/opt/PostgreSQL/8.3/include --with-pgsql-lib=/opt/PostgreSQL/8.3/lib
> extconf.rb:4:in `<main>': uninitialized constant PLATFORM (NameError)

I'm afraid I don't use ruby, so I can't provide specific advice.
However, this looks to me like the gem installer expects a PLATFORM
(e.g. "linux") to be defined and can't find it. I'd expect there is a
guide to setting up your gems environment somewhere on the ruby pages
though.

However, before you spend too long with this - are you sure there isn't
an Ubuntu package for this? A few seconds' searching suggests this might
be what you're after:
http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=libpgsql-ruby

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Richard Huxton
Archonet Ltd

> I’m trying to connect ruby to postgres on ubuntu and the only link I
> found that has the library is down. Does anyone have the postgres
> library for ruby? Or direct me to it?

Yeah, I think this is an area that we need to address if we want to see
wider adoption of Postgres. I started out to write a postgres utility in
Ruby. I think I eventually got it to work. But by that time I was
convinced that noone would actually go thru that much hassle in order to
try out the app. So I wrote it in Python instead. But if I was a Ruby
developer setting out to write a database application, I'm sure I would
have given up on Postgres and used MySQL instead.

Scott

Dnia Mon, 01 Jun 2009 09:29:30 -0400, Justin Carrera napisał(a):

> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to connect ruby to postgres on ubuntu and the only link I
> found that has the library is down. Does anyone have the postgres
> library for ruby? Or direct me to it?

It's in the libpgsql-ruby package.