ruby - pg

[Bryan Blackburn]

On Mon, Oct 06, 2008 at 05:23:19PM -0400, Tom Allison said:
> I'm struggling here between the different mailing lists and postings.
> 
> What I would like to get running is the ruby DBI on postgresql 8.3.
> 
> macports seems to support 8.1 only.
> rubygems is mostly DOA every time I try to install and run them.
> 
> They install without error, but cannot be loaded.
> 
> Is there a path I need to set?
> Some other method?
> 
> There's a lot pf pages out there talking about a lot of different 
> packages available.  As near as I can tell - ruby-pg is the one I want 
> to install under the DBI library.
> 

For Ruby and DBI, it looks like you want to use the rb-dbi port with the
dbd_pg variant for PostGreSQL.  The dbd_pg variant requires the rb-postgres
port which is what brings in postgresql81 unfortantely; there is a ticket
about this:

<http://trac.macports.org/ticket/12703>

Bryan


> One thing that is a must have is prepared statements for performance.  I 
> don't think ORM do this very well.