From: "R. Mark Volkmann" <mark@...>
Date: 2005-04-02T12:58:02+09:00
Subject: MySQL under latest one-click installer

Can it really be this hard to access MySQL from Ruby running under Windows?

Several people have emailed suggestions to me, but none are as simple as
1) download file x from site y
2) unzip file x
3) run this command to install it
4) use this API to access a MySQL database

Maybe the instructions people pointed me to work find under platforms other than
Windows or with other versions of Ruby than what is in the latest one-click
installer.

Accessing MySQL seems like a very basic requirement.
Surely someone working under Windows has needed to do this.

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R. Mark Volkmann
Partner, Object Computing, Inc.