Re: Help needed for PL/Ruby

Hi,

Anyone? :)

Regards, Devrim

On Wed, 2015-03-18 at 15:19 +0200, Devrim Gündüz wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Background info first: PL/Ruby was originally maintained by Guy Decoux,
> who passed away in 2008: https://www.ruby-forum.com/topic/166658 . After
> his death, Akinori MUSHA forked the project and maintained it until
> 2010: https://github.com/knu/postgresql-plruby . Last release was on Jan
> 2010, and recent distros started throwing build errors.
>
> I was having similar build issues while trying to RPMify PL/Ruby, and
> finally stepped up the plate and tried to fix those build issues by
> forking the project:
>
> https://github.com/devrimgunduz/postgresql-plruby/
>
> I mainly applied patches from Fedora, and also did some basic cleanup.
> However, I don't know Ruby and have limited C skills, so I need some
> help on these:
>
> * Complete the extension support: I committed initial infrastructure for
> it, but I don't think it is ready yet.
>
> * Fix the FIXME:
> https://github.com/devrimgunduz/postgresql-plruby/blob/master/src/plpl.c#L844
>
> * Documentation review and update: The recent example is against
> PostgreSQL 8.0. A recent Ruby example would be good, and also we need
> updates for creating the language.
>
> Any contributions are welcome. I recently released 0.5.5 that at least
> is ready for testing.
>
> I want to remind that I am not a Ruby guy, so this is really a community
> stuff for me.
>
> Thanks by now.
>
> Regards,

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Devrim GÜNDÜZ
Principal Systems Engineer @ EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
PostgreSQL Danışmanı/Consultant, Red Hat Certified Engineer
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