Ruby Postgres script

Swami Nikhilaananda said:
"Ruby is a gem of a language"

There was a very simple requirement that I had - I wanted to write a script to update a postgres table. On looking up quite a few resources also, I was unable to solve the issue that I was facing. Let me put down the completely stripped down version of the script here first...

#!/usr/bin/ruby
require 'postgres'
conn = PGconn.connect("localhost", 5432, '', '', "tblName", "username", "password")
puts conn

This script is the typical script that you will find on looking up any site. However, the error that you will face on running this is the following:

... `require': no such file to load -- postgres (LoadError) ...

This was quite annoying... Finally I discovered the required solution. So, I thought that this needs to be shared. Though it appears to be trivial, it is definitely not something that I could find with ease :)

#!/usr/bin/ruby
require 'rubygems' 
require 'postgres'
conn = PGconn.connect("localhost", 5432, '', '', "tblName", "username", "password")
puts conn

That line needs to come before you add require for others. Then it works like a charm <-- well, everyone uses that line :P So, thought I should too :-)

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