# Prerelease of Ruby-pg 0.9.0

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/prerelease-of-ruby-pg-0-9-0/183730>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [February 19, 2010, 7:01am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/prerelease-of-ruby-pg-0-9-0/183730 "2010-02-19T07:01:10Z")\
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**Author:** ![mgreenly](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/85f322/32.png) [@mgreenly](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/mgreenly)\
**Post date:** [February 19, 2010, 7:01am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/prerelease-of-ruby-pg-0-9-0/183730/1 "2010-02-19T07:01:10Z")

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Hi All,

I’d like to announce the imminent release of version 0.9.0 of the  
ruby-pg library, the Ruby interface to the PostgreSQL RDBMS.

The 0.9.0 version has some fairly significant changes to the backend,  
especially for Ruby 1.9.1 and Windows users, so we’d like to have people  
test it out in their own environments before we release it to the world.

To that end, I’ve pushed up a prerelease version of the gem for people  
to test out. If you’d like to help out, you can install the prerelease  
like so:

gem install pg --prerelease

You can check to see if you have the new version loaded by checking the  
PGconn::VERSION constant; it was added in this release, so if you have  
one and it’s ‘0.9.0’, then you’re good.

If you do decide to test, and you find a problem, please submit a ticket  
via the project’s tracker here:

[http://bitbucket.org/ged/ruby-pg/issues/new/](http://bitbucket.org/ged/ruby-pg/issues/new/)

If you test it and it works, I’d really appreciate a note to that effect  
either via personal email or in reply to this post, even if you just  
send “it worked” and your platform, Ruby version, and PostgreSQL  
version.

There are very few changes to existing methods in this release, so we  
don’t anticipate there will be much need to change existing code. If you  
want to see the details of what has changed, and can’t wait for the  
release announcement sometime next week (barring any serious problems),  
the changeset history for the release can be found here:

[http://bitbucket.org/ged/ruby-pg/changesets/9c65eb905416:7fbe4187e9e5/](http://bitbucket.org/ged/ruby-pg/changesets/9c65eb905416:7fbe4187e9e5/)

Thanks!

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**Author:** ![mgreenly](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/85f322/32.png) [@mgreenly](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/mgreenly)\
**Post date:** [February 21, 2010, 10:18pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/prerelease-of-ruby-pg-0-9-0/183730/2 "2010-02-21T22:18:50Z")

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On 2/18/2010 11:19 PM, Michael G. wrote:

> to test out. If you’d like to help out, you can install the prerelease
> 
> the changeset history for the release can be found here:
> 
> [http://bitbucket.org/ged/ruby-pg/changesets/9c65eb905416:7fbe4187e9e5/](http://bitbucket.org/ged/ruby-pg/changesets/9c65eb905416:7fbe4187e9e5/)
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> Thanks!

I gave it a quick test on ruby 1.8.7 (2010-01-10 patchlevel 249)  
[i386-mingw32]. Worked fine.

Jack