From: Phil Roberts <phil.roberts@...>
Date: 2004-08-28T17:35:34+09:00
Subject: Re: Can't get dbi to work?

Robo <robo@mars.com> emerged reluctantly from the curtain and
staggered drunkenly up to the mic. In a cracked and slurred voice
he muttered: 

> So, what do I need to do to make Ruby work with MySQL? I'm using
> WinXP, MySQL4, and Windows version of Ruby 1.8.0.

To the best of my knowledge, so far nobody has updated the MySQL 
package to work on Windows with any Ruby version higher than 1.6. 
Which seems like a tragic oversight in my mind. Nor have any 
details been left as to how the original porting was made.

I''ve had to fall back on the Ruby-MySQL dirver. Which has the same 
API as the C driver, only implemented in pure Ruby code. It's not 
quite as fast, but it works.

http://www.tmtm.org/ruby/mysql/README_en.html

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