pgsql Ruby Gem

A PostgreSQL library that was carefully designed.

Author

Bertram Scharpf <software@bertram-scharpf.de>

Features

• Connection parameters from hash

• Query parameters

• Asynchronous queries

• Quick query of single lines or values

• Full PostgreSQL quoting support

• Built-in transactions and savepoints by Ruby blocks

Example

Write something like this:

require "pgsql"

Pg::Conn.open :dbname => "test1", :user => "jdoe" do |conn|
  conn.exec "SELECT * FROM mytable;" do |result|
    result.each { |row|
        l = row.join ", "
            ...
    }
  end
  cmd = <<-ENDSQL
    SELECT * FROM mytable WHERE num=$1::INTEGER;
  ENDSQL
  conn.query cmd, 42 do |row|
    l = row.join ", "
        ...
  end
  ...
end

Thanks

In the remembrance of Guy Decoux.