From: Michael Neumann <mneumann@...>
Date: 2005-04-01T00:36:57+09:00
Subject: Re: gems for DBI and MySQL?

Am Donnerstag 31 M�rz 2005 17:19 schrieb R. Mark Volkmann:
> As posted by Vraj Mohan, the procedure for setting up Ruby access to MySQL
> under Windows is quite involved.  See
> http://seagecko.org/thoughts/index.php?p=28.
>
> Does Rails use DBI to access databases?

No.

> Does Rails support MySQL out of the box?

No.

> 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?

You still need the MySQL module and this is what might be troublesome (because 
you have to compile it).

Regards,

  Michael