Cannot connect using an URI

[katafrakt]

In pg I can do this:

PG::Connection.open('postgres://postgres:password@localhost/test')

However in jruby-pg if the argument is a string, it expects it to be pairs of key=value and fails with error indicating wrong number of arguments.

Connecting via URI is useful when you share configuration between PG and, for example, Sequel.

[katafrakt]

BTW I think I could work on this, but I'm not sure this project is maintained. Also, it targets ruby-pg 0.17.1, while we have 1.1.4 now. What's the status here?

[headius]

The project is dormant mostly because we had a large contribution of code from a few users and then they moved on. It's also not needed by ActiveRecord or Sequel, so most effort has gone toward supporting those better.

That said, I'd like to see the work already done here become more useful, and some users do go directly to the PG API for database access. What we have here is functional for the time it was written, but has fallen behind the Ruby C extension and likely the native "libpg" we are trying to emulate. First steps would largely be assessing what we have and what we are missing.