From: James Britt <james_b@...>
Date: 2005-12-01T07:32:50+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby, MySQL on WinXP?

planetthoughtful wrote:
> Hello All,
> 
> I'm just starting out learning Ruby, having come from a PHP background.
> 
> I've downloaded the latest stable Ruby release, and have also used the
> GEM package manager to install Rails, but I'm a little confused about
> how I connect Ruby to MySQL?
> 
> The only references I can find to a Ruby driver for MySQL call for
> compiling, and I (and many other WinXP users, I imagine) don't have a
> copy of Visual C++ with which to do that.
> 
> Is there no official supported driver for connecting Ruby to MySQL
> under Windows?

There is a pure-Ruby MySQL driver.


http://raa.ruby-lang.org/project/ruby-mysql/

might be it.


James

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