Re: [GENERAL] Books, the lulu.com scam

2009-11-21 Thread doug livesey
It IS their fault that they're selling DM books -- plenty of other publishers (like the Pragmatic Programmers) seem to make a living without assuming that all of their customers are thieves. I bought a book from them assuming it would be a PDF & was furious when it was that adobe thing. It may have

Re: [GENERAL] Totally fresh uninstall/reinstall of Postgres on MacBook Pro running Snow Leopard?

2009-11-18 Thread doug livesey
Is that a custom version of Ruby & Rails to work with Postgres, or the other way around? If the latter, that could be cool, but if the former, then not as useful, as it is with DataMapper & Sinatra I'd really like to use the postgres db. But the postgres-pr is a fine compromise for the time being,

Re: [GENERAL] Totally fresh uninstall/reinstall of Postgres on MacBook Pro running Snow Leopard?

2009-11-18 Thread doug livesey
Ah, do you mean the postgres-pr gem? That seems to have done it, for now -- I shall see if it falls over when I use it in anger. Cheers, Doug. 2009/11/18 doug livesey > What packages are those? Maybe I should look them up. > > (Sorry for the double-post, Peter.) >

Re: [GENERAL] Totally fresh uninstall/reinstall of Postgres on MacBook Pro running Snow Leopard?

2009-11-18 Thread doug livesey
What packages are those? Maybe I should look them up. (Sorry for the double-post, Peter.)

[GENERAL] Totally fresh uninstall/reinstall of Postgres on MacBook Pro running Snow Leopard?

2009-11-18 Thread doug livesey
Hi -- I'm having a world of trouble getting Postgres to work with a number of ruby libraries, and was thinking that, to be sure that I'm eliminating all that could be wrong, I need to ensure that my Postgres install is fresh, correct, and as canonical as possible. Could someone advise me on the bes