From: Sarah Tanembaum <sarahtanembaum@...>
Date: 2005-01-07T07:56:31+09:00
Subject: Re: MySQL DBD now working on my Windows XP box

Curt Hibbs wrote:
> Jim Menard wrote:
> 
>>I've been struggling with getting MySQL working on my work box
>>running Windows
>>XP. I installed DBI and DBD but kept seeing errors. Here are the
>>two actions
>>that finally got it running:
>>
>>1) Downloaded mysql.so from
>>http://seagecko.org/thoughts/2004/09/09/ruby-mysql-and-windows/ (thanks,
>>Justin) and installed it in
>>/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/i386-msvcrt. That
>>changed my error message to one that said something like "can't find
>>mysql_character_code_somethingorother in LIBMYSQL.DLL".
>>
>>2) Copied /mysql/lib/opt/libmysql.dll to /windows/system32, replacing the
>>libmySQL.dll that was already there.
>>
>>Now I can use DBI and---even better---Rails on my work box. Yay!
>>I hope these
>>two tips help somebody else.
> 
> 
> I'm not sure why you had to go to all that trouble... for me, I just
> installed Ruby with te One-Click installer and them at the command line ran
> "gem install rails" (which includes MySQL support). I can then use MySQL
> with Rails -- no problem (I never tried DBI or DBD, though).
> 
> Curt
> 
> 
> 
Not really! Is this okay or I did something wrong ..

This is what I got ... after One-Click installer, I tried to install 
Rails ...

c:\apps\ruby>gem install rails
Attempting local installation of 'rails'
Local gem file not found: rails*.gem
Attempting remote installation of 'rails'
Successfully installed rails, version 0.9.3
Installing RDoc documentation for rails-0.9.3...
WARNING: Generating RDoc on .gem that may not have RDoc.

lib/binding_of_caller.rb:4:25: Couldn't find Continuation. Assuming it's 
a module

lib/binding_of_caller.rb:36:21: Couldn't find Binding. Assuming it's a 
module

lib/rails_generator.rb:34:46: Skipping require of dynamic string: 
"#{path}/#{name}_generator.rb"

C:\apps\ruby>