From: "James Britt (rubydev)" <james@...>
Date: 2001-11-10T11:20:38+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:24815] RE: MySQL trouble? was  RE:  Windows Installer: SciTE instead of RubyWin?

What trouble did you have getting the MySQL interface going?
I found it surprisingly easy to get working on Linux.  

I wrote some brief tips about this in an article about REXML & MySQL, perhaps it'll help.

http://www.rubyxml.com/articles/REXML/MySQL_and_REXML


Or drop me a line.

James 
james@rubyxml.com

> By the way, after struggling to get the Ruby/Mysql interfaces working, I'd
> vote for including that also.  I finally gave it because the process was
> just too time consuming. It's unfortunate, beause it means the project I was
> woking on will have to be done in Python on Windows. Not a complete loss for
> Ruby, but it's frustrating to run into a roadblock like that on what seemed
> like a straightforward project (and was in the Linux environment).
> 
> Just my 2 cents.
> Anthony
>