From: planetthoughtful Date: 2007-03-13T13:55:05+09:00 Subject: Re: Newbie: best way to connect to MySQL? On Mar 13, 11:43 am, KDr2 wrote: > > - Where do I get it from, if I can? > > there are many sites...for eg:http://rubyforge.vm.bytemark.co.uk/gems/ > > > - Is there any special syntax for installing it from a local file? > > No,just place the file *.gem under the current dir,then execute > "gem i filename.gem" > Hi - just wanted say thank you for your help with this! I'm not sure what was wrong with my Google-Fu, but I'd spent a couple of hours trying to find somewhere from which I could download gem files directly without any luck. Now happily connecting to MySQL! Thanks again! pt