On Tue, 4 Jul 2006, Joe Van Dyk wrote: > For some reason, downloading ruby-postgres-20060406.tar.gz and doing a > manual install worked, while installing with the gem did not. oh yeah. i remember that i had the same problem - the compilation stage of the gem install doesn't correctly configur the include and lib dirs and thus is fails (silently). fyi for people reading this... -a -- suffering increases your inner strength. also, the wishing for suffering makes the suffering disappear. - h.h. the 14th dali lama