From: Adelle Hartley <adelle@...>
Date: 2005-04-02T19:35:19+09:00
Subject: Re: MySQL under latest one-click installer

Hi Mark,

> 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

I was previously able to connect to MySQL v 4.0.12 with the Ruby one-click
installer.  I recently switched to MySQL v 4.1.9 and suddenly things got
difficult.

I found some instructions which said
1.  install DBI
2.  configure any databases that you want to access from Ruby, to use "old"
style password authentication (unencrypted).

Even following that advice, I have not been able to connect to MySQL 4.1.9
from Ruby unless the password is blank.

Adelle.