David Masover
6/10/2008 4:00:00 AM
On Monday 09 June 2008 16:50:14 rickcasey wrote:
> I'm got Ruby on Rails 6.1 installed
...are you from the future?
Ruby 1.8.7 was recently released. There is a development version called 1.9,
for what will eventually be Ruby 2.0.
Rails 2.1 was recently released.
> This is in a Debian Linux 2.6.18 environment
It would probably be much more helpful to say what version of Debian you're
using -- for example, Debian Etch on x86, or Debian Sid on ARM, or whatever.
2.6.18 is the Linux Kernel version, not a debian version.
> , where Postgres 7.4.6 is
> our database, already running as the backend database for another
> project that I want to connect to.
While I'm on version numbers, Postgres 8.2.7 and 8.3.1 is out.
> My sysadmin has installed the Debian library libdbd-pg-ruby but says
> there's no more documentation on it. Also he is reluctant to install
> the gems package described at the Ruby site as an example of how to
> connect Postgres.
You can always install the gem locally -- as in, on your workstation -- most
gems come with documentation. The Debian library is probably just a
repackaging of the gem.
And you can tell your sysadmin, Rubygems is a decent package manager in its
own right -- if you're going to be doing a lot of Ruby development, you're
probably going to want to use gems instead of Debian packages.