#342 Migrating to PostgreSQL

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PostgreSQL is an increasingly popular database choice for Rails developers and with good reason. The many features it provides mean that a lot of developers who previously used MySQL have now moved over to Postgres. We’ll mention some of these at the end of this episode but first we’ll show you how to set up Postgres in a Rails application. First we’ll need to install Postgres. The downloads page on the PostgreSQL site has packages for a variety of operating systems. Mac OS X Lion comes with Postgres and we can check the version by running the

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