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

On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 10:37 AM, doug livesey <biot023@gmail.com> wrote:

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 best way to ensure that I have first
*totally* uninstalled Postgres from my machine, then secondly the best way
to install it so that everything is most likely to be set up the way a
third-party developer might expect (ie, what is the most vanilla Postgres
install)?

Not sure what you're trying to do, but on a Windows machine I've never
been able to get the Ruby Gems to recognize / find / work with a
Postgres install that was not integrated with them from the get go.
I've always had to use the integrated Postgres / Ruby packages to have
Ruby work...

--
Peter Hunsberger

What packages are those? Maybe I should look them up.

(Sorry for the double-post, Peter.)

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 <biot023@gmail.com>

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, cheers! I'll
use ActiveRecord with Sinatra, and see if I can change to DM somewhen later,
maybe when there's a new release.
Thanks a lot for your help!
Doug.