From: planetthoughtful <planetthoughtful@...>
Date: 2007-03-13T10:00:07+09:00
Subject: Re: Newbie: best way to connect to MySQL?

On Mar 13, 10:33 am, "kreiggers" <luckybo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mar 12, 4:33 pm, "planetthoughtful" <planetthought...@gmail.com>
> 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

Hi,

Thanks for your reply. Do you (or does anyone else) know if I can
download and install the mysql gem locally? I'm behind a corporate
firewall and it doesn't seem that the Gem package manager can get out.

So, I guess what I'm asking is:

- Can I download the gem file?
- Where do I get it from, if I can?
- Is there any special syntax for installing it from a local file?

Thanks again!

pt