It looks like the snapshot version causes problems for Rails :(
http://dev.rubyonrails.org/ticket/2977
http://www.ruby-forum.com/topic/9114#new
reals and numerics get converted to values like nil, 1, 2, true, ...
I had to uninstall it and go back to the 0.71 version. The postgres.so files get installed in
different locations - perhaps I can configure Rails and commandline scripts to load the one they
need.
csn
--- Michael Fuhr <mike@fuhr.org> wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 20, 2005 at 12:28:32PM -0800, CSN wrote:
> > Ah.. I installed the snapshot manually and the script works fine now.
> > They should update the gem version - Jan. 2003 is quite a while ago.
> > Does it matter if the postgres library is installed via 'gem' or not?
>
> I wouldn't think so, except maybe for how your program loads the
> code (require vs. require_gem).
>
> --
> Michael Fuhr
>
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