From: kreiggers Date: 2007-03-13T09:35:09+09:00 Subject: Re: Newbie: best way to connect to MySQL? On Mar 12, 4:33 pm, "planetthoughtful" wrote: > Is there a better way to connect to a MySQL server using Ruby than via > ODBC? Is there a syntax for supplying user and password settings for > the ODBC::connect statement above? Yes, use the mysql gem. install: gem install mysql