Re: [jruby-user] [ANN] ruby-pg for JRuby

What would be the advantage of this gem vs the JDBC gems?

On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 7:05 AM, John Shahid <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> Sorry for the double post. I posted this earlier to the announcements
> mailing list, but didn't get any feedback. So I'm posting here in the users
> mailing list hoping to get more audience.
>
> Some of you might have come across the JRuby friendly ruby-pg gem
> https://github.com/headius/jruby-pg. Unfortunately I started this work
> more than a year ago. I didn't have time to fix the issues that were
> reported or keep it up to date with the ruby-pg gem. Recently, I got some
> leisure time and rewrote a big chunk of the gem to make it compatible with
> 0.17.1. I've tested the gem with JRuby 1.7.18 and all the tests pass. The
> active record (v3.2.21) tests pass as well.
>
> That makes confident to release the gem, may be a release candidate for
> now. It looks like the ruby-pg guys are willing to merge the changes in
> their repo but it might take a while to do so. I think this gem should be
> released separately for the now. Unless I get any feedback soon, I'll go
> with jruby-pg.
>
> Cheers,
>
> JS
>