Error requiring pg under rvm with postgres.app

Question

I\'m using Postgres.app on OS X (10.8.3). I have modified my PATH so that the bin folder for the app is before all others.

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Answer 1

Edit: Even though this answer currently has more votes than the accepted answer, the accepted answer is far simpler and cleaner.

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Remove the Postgres.app binaries from the path when installing the pg gem, and instead use the postgres install built into OS X to configure the gem. The pg library will still correctly connect to the Postgres.app server later on.

Rammy:~ phrogz$ gem uninstall pg
Successfully uninstalled pg-0.15.1

# Modify PATH to remove /Applications/Postgres.app/Contents/MacOS/bin

Rammy:~ phrogz$ gem install pg
Fetching: pg-0.15.1.gem (100%)
Building native extensions.  This could take a while...
Successfully installed pg-0.15.1
1 gem installed

Rammy:~ phrogz$ ruby -v -e "require 'pg'"
ruby 1.9.3p392 (2013-02-22 revision 39386) [x86_64-darwin12.3.0]