Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2005 08:56:14 -0700
From: Michael Fuhr <mike@fuhr.org>
To: CSN <cool_screen_name90001@yahoo.com>
Cc: pgsql-interfaces@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: ruby/postgres - getting assoc array of rows?
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On Sun, Nov 20, 2005 at 02:31:45AM -0800, CSN wrote:
> I tried:
> puts "by name:     #{row['id']} #{row['name']}"
> 
> but it exits with:
> pg.rb:16:in `[]': can't convert String into Integer (TypeError)

What versions of Ruby and ruby-postgres are you using?  Did you use
exactly the code I posted or did you do something different?  The
only way to get a PGrow object (other than building it yourself)
is from PGresult#each or some method that calls it, so this won't
work:

conn = PGconn.new('dbname=test')
result = conn.exec('SELECT 1 AS x')
row = result[0]  # returns an Array
puts row['x']    # raises TypeError

but this does work:

row = result.to_a[0]  # returns a PGrow
puts row['x']

I'm not sure if the PGrow behavior is version-specific.  I don't
see it mentioned in the ruby-postgres ChangeLog, so I'd have to dig
a little more to find out.

-- 
Michael Fuhr