Josh Kim dot Org - Latest Comments in PostgreSQL, Ruby, and Rails: I Quit

Re: PostgreSQL, Ruby, and Rails: I Quit

John Mileham — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 00:01:34 -0000

I've done a couple of rails installs now on laptops and found myself in the exact same situation as you when installing on a new box -- real headscratcher. My problem was this: I'd installed rubygems via macports but neglected to install a fresh copy of rake via rubygems, which meant that when doing a rake db:migrate, it would find OS X's native rubygems. I only figured this out because script/server (which relies on the ruby binary) was working where rake was not.

A 'gem install rake' (and a new terminal window to clear the bash path cache -- try saying that out loud) fixed me right up.

If this command doesn't return three binaries in the same directory for you, you might be in the same boat:

$ which ruby rake gem

-john

Re: PostgreSQL, Ruby, and Rails: I Quit

Mustafa — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 10:39:13 -0000

argh thats what i get for rushing my reply

heres the correct url

http://netbeans.dzone.com/news/rails-and-postgr...

Re: PostgreSQL, Ruby, and Rails: I Quit

Mustafa — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 10:38:11 -0000

you folks want to be spoon-fed, hmmm i dunno, here you go

http://blogs.sun.com/jkshah/entry/postgresql_an...

Re: PostgreSQL, Ruby, and Rails: I Quit

Mustafa — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 05:39:13 -0000

argh thats what i get for rushing my reply

heres the correct url

http://netbeans.dzone.com/news/rails-and-postgr...

Re: PostgreSQL, Ruby, and Rails: I Quit

Mustafa — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 05:38:11 -0000

you folks want to be spoon-fed, hmmm i dunno, here you go

http://blogs.sun.com/jkshah/entry/postgresql_an...

Re: PostgreSQL, Ruby, and Rails: I Quit

Orhino — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 06:24:29 -0000

Yeah Mustafa.. the url would've been a cool addition to your comment..

Re: PostgreSQL, Ruby, and Rails: I Quit

Orhino — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 01:24:29 -0000

Yeah Mustafa.. the url would've been a cool addition to your comment..

Re: PostgreSQL, Ruby, and Rails: I Quit

thooby — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 22:55:33 -0000

Mustafá, I woud like to find the 'blog on the dzone site, by some indian guy' Could you tel us the url

Re: PostgreSQL, Ruby, and Rails: I Quit

thooby — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 17:55:33 -0000

Mustafá, I woud like to find the 'blog on the dzone site, by some indian guy' Could you tel us the url

Re: PostgreSQL, Ruby, and Rails: I Quit

Mustafa — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 10:30:10 -0000

i got this setup working

postgres 8.3.5

nb 6.5 ruby

postgres-pr 0.5.0

there are instructions on a blog on the dzone site, by some indian guy, it definitely works

you need to create the db before working with it from nb, once its created, migrations do work, but for some reason the inital create:db doesnt work.

Re: PostgreSQL, Ruby, and Rails: I Quit

Mustafa — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 05:30:10 -0000

i got this setup working

postgres 8.3.5
nb 6.5 ruby
postgres-pr 0.5.0

there are instructions on a blog on the dzone site, by some indian guy, it definitely works

you need to create the db before working with it from nb, once its created, migrations do work, but for some reason the inital create:db doesnt work.

Re: PostgreSQL, Ruby, and Rails: I Quit

joshkim — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 19:26:53 -0000

Yeah, same here. I started poking around in rails to see how I could
fix it, but I gave up after gobs and gobs of time spent on it. I also

remember it working in 2.1, because I was working on another rails

project back then... but something must have changed with 2.2.

Re: PostgreSQL, Ruby, and Rails: I Quit

ehsanul — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 19:04:33 -0000

Thanks for the reply joshkim.

Well, all that's being done there in the gist to do with this is "sudo gem install postgres", which is sorta obvious. I don't think the problem is with the gem, though I've tried uninstalling and installing a few times, and tried the other ruby-pg gem too. Robby doesn't have the same error I do. The error shows up when doing a rake command to create the database, and occurs for others when trying a rake db migration command.

I think this error only shows up with the latest rails, because I've been using postgresql on my laptop with rails 2.1.1 for a while. But it messes up on my server, which has rails 2.2.2 installed. The problem doesn't seem to be with the gem, but with activerecord itself. I don't know nearly enough about rails to begin trying to solve it though.

I guess I may switch to mysql for now myself, just to get things working, but that isn't really a solution to me.

Re: PostgreSQL, Ruby, and Rails: I Quit

joshkim — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 14:31:36 -0000

Did you try the gist that robby posted? I haven't had a chance to, but
it looks like it *may* work.

My solution was just to go MySQL and worry about integration with

PostgreSQL later, or maybe have that magic happen on the production

server, which has Ubuntu installed.

Re: PostgreSQL, Ruby, and Rails: I Quit

joshkim — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 14:26:53 -0000

Yeah, same here. I started poking around in rails to see how I could
fix it, but I gave up after gobs and gobs of time spent on it. I also
remember it working in 2.1, because I was working on another rails
project back then... but something must have changed with 2.2.

Re: PostgreSQL, Ruby, and Rails: I Quit

ehsanul — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 14:04:33 -0000

Re: PostgreSQL, Ruby, and Rails: I Quit

ehsanul — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 09:42:22 -0000

You're wrong Carl. I saw this "solution" as well online (I'm having the same problem), and I did originally have it set to "postgres", which was wrong. But even after changing it to "postgresql", I get the same type of error. Actually, with adapter set to postgres, I get this error:

"Please install the postgres adapter: `gem install activerecord-postgres-adapter` (no such file to load -- active_record/connection_adapters/postgres_adapter)"

When it's set correct to "postgresql", I get this error:

Please install the postgresql adapter: `gem install activerecord-postgresql-adapter` (no such file to load -- pg)

I've tried both the ruby-pg and postgres gems, to no avail. Any help would be appreciated.

Re: PostgreSQL, Ruby, and Rails: I Quit

joshkim — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 09:31:36 -0000

Did you try the gist that robby posted? I haven't had a chance to, but
it looks like it *may* work.

My solution was just to go MySQL and worry about integration with
PostgreSQL later, or maybe have that magic happen on the production
server, which has Ubuntu installed.

Re: PostgreSQL, Ruby, and Rails: I Quit

ehsanul — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 04:42:22 -0000

Re: PostgreSQL, Ruby, and Rails: I Quit

James Nachbar — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 18:01:27 -0000

Take a look at my comments here:

http://nachbar.name/blog/2008/11/28/rails-and-p...

Re: PostgreSQL, Ruby, and Rails: I Quit

Carl Pelletier — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 15:28:55 -0000

If that can help, I find the solution for ruby-pg. You must specify the adapter in config/database.yml at:
adapter:postgresql

That it! No more complain by Activerecord...

Thanks

Re: PostgreSQL, Ruby, and Rails: I Quit

Carl Pelletier — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 10:28:55 -0000

If that can help, I find the solution for ruby-pg. You must specify the adapter in config/database.yml at:
adapter:postgresql

That it! No more complain by Activerecord...

Thanks

Re: PostgreSQL, Ruby, and Rails: I Quit

Robby Russell — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 04:57:07 -0000

Hey there... sorry to hear that you had some troubles. I am planning to post a new version of my post shortly. Here are some of my notes from doing a full install last week with my new MacBook Pro.

* http://gist.github.com/17502

Good luck!

Re: PostgreSQL, Ruby, and Rails: I Quit

Robby Russell — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 23:57:07 -0000