From: "R. Mark Volkmann" <mark@...>
Date: 2005-04-02T22:58:40+09:00
Subject: Re: MySQL under latest one-click installer

Quoting Adelle Hartley <adelle@bullet.net.au>:

> 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.

Ah ha!  Someone else feels my pain.  ;-)

Okay, has anyone successfully used MySQL 4.1 or higher under Windows with some
version of mysql-ruby?  If so, what is the URL of the mysql-ruby package that
worked for you?  Were you able to install it using the documented steps for
that package?

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R. Mark Volkmann
Partner, Object Computing, Inc.