Build a Ruby application
Attention
This page documents an earlier version. Go to the latest (v2.3) version.Install the pg driver gem
Install the Ruby PostgreSQL driver (pg) using the following command. You can get further details for the driver here .
$ gem install pg -- --with-pg-config=<yugabyte-install-dir>/postgres/bin/pg_config
Working example
Prerequisites
This tutorial assumes that you have:
- installed YugabyteDB and created a universe with YSQL enabled. If not, please follow these steps in the Quick Start guide.
Writing the Ruby code
Create a file yb-sql-helloworld.rb and add the following content to it.
#!/usr/bin/env ruby
require 'pg'
begin
# Output a table of current connections to the DB
conn = PG.connect(host: '127.0.0.1', port: '5433', dbname: 'postgres', user: 'postgres', password: 'postgres')
# Create table
conn.exec ("CREATE TABLE employee (id int PRIMARY KEY, \
name varchar, age int, \
language varchar)");
puts "Created table employee\n";
# Insert a row
conn.exec ("INSERT INTO employee (id, name, age, language) \
VALUES (1, 'John', 35, 'Ruby')");
puts "Inserted data (1, 'John', 35, 'Ruby')\n";
# Query the row
rs = conn.exec ("SELECT name, age, language FROM employee WHERE id = 1");
rs.each do |row|
puts "Query returned: %s %s %s" % [ row['name'], row['age'], row['language'] ]
end
rescue PG::Error => e
puts e.message
ensure
rs.clear if rs
conn.close if conn
end
Running the application
To run the application, type the following:
$ ./yb-sql-helloworld.rb
You should see the following output.
Created table employee
Inserted data (1, 'John', 35, 'Ruby')
Query returned: John 35 Ruby