From: Kirk Haines <khaines@...>
Date: 2005-04-01T00:34:46+09:00
Subject: Re: gems for DBI and MySQL?

R. Mark Volkmann wrote:

> Does Rails use DBI to access databases?

No.

> Does Rails support MySQL out of the box?
> I'm not writing a web app.  However, if the answer to both questions above
> is "yes" then it would seem that the easiest way to get myself setup to
> use MySQL
> would be to install Rails.  True?

No.

It's easy to just do it by hand.

Get mysql-ruby (http://tmtm.org/en/mysql/ruby/README.html), which is the C
interface, or ruby-mysql (http://tmtm.org/en/ruby/mysql/README_en.html),
which is the pure Ruby interface.  Follow the easy instructions to build
this.

Download DBI (http://rubyforge.org/projects/ruby-dbi).

After unpacking ruby-dbi:

   ruby setup.rb config --with=dbi,dbd_mysql
   ruby setup.rb setup
   ruby setup.rb install


You'll be good to go.


Kirk Haines