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Trouble installing new Postgres Ruby adapter

I tried working with Rails 2.2, and I started getting an undefined method `transaction_status' for #<PGconn:0x32ec0cc> error on my MacBook. Turns out that the Postgres gem had been updated and was now called ruby-pg. I tried installing it, but the compile kept failing. The instructions told me to set the ARCHFLAGS environment variable, but:

export ARCHFLAGS='-arch i386'
sudo gem install ruby-pg

didn't work. Eventually I clued in that root's environment was different than mine. So, I tried:

bash-3.2# export ARCHFLAGS='-arch i386'
bash-3.2# gem install ruby-pg
Building native extensions.  This could take a while...
Successfully installed ruby-pg-0.7.9.2008.01.28
1 gem installed
Installing ri documentation for ruby-pg-0.7.9.2008.01.28...
Installing RDoc documentation for ruby-pg-0.7.9.2008.01.28...

This works. Finally.

Tagged archflags, compile, gem, postgres, and ruby.
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