From: Michael Neumann <mneumann@...>
Date: 2004-05-23T21:42:06+09:00
Subject: Re: DBI

On Sun, May 23, 2004 at 06:08:44PM +0900, Martin Uruz wrote:
> hi
> i hav a problem with database access to a mysql database i use this code:
> #!/usr/bin/ruby
> require "dbi"
> 
> DBI.connect("DBI:Mysql:logs",
>   "rubychan", "Rubin") { |conn|
>                 }
> and i get the following error:
> 
> /dbi/dbi.rb:490:in `load_driver':  is not a class/module (TypeError)
>         from /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/dbi/dbi.rb:392:in 
> `_get_full_driver'
>         from /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/dbi/dbi.rb:372:in `connect'
>         from ./dbtest.rb:5
> can someone help me i am new in ruby

Ruby/DBI depends on other software modules, in your case it expects the
mysql-ruby to be installed. 

You can find it here: http://raa.ruby-lang.org/project/mysql-ruby/
Install it! 

Regards,

  Michael