From: Kai Nitschke <codevoid@...>
Date: 2007-06-09T22:15:03+09:00
Subject: Re: Newbie question about MySQL on Windows XP Pro

I think you need to include 'rubygems' as well like this:

require 'rubygems'
require 'dbi'

Hope that helps :)

Grehom wrote:

> 
> I then tried running this ruby script:
> 
>   require 'dbi'
> 
>   db_name = "cookbook"
>   host_name = "localhost"
>   user_name = "cb_user"
>   password = "cb_pass"
>   dsn = "DBI:mysql:host=#{host_name};database=#{db_name}"
> 
>   # Connect to a database, old style
>   dbh = DBI.connect(dsn, user_name, password)
> 
>   # And finally, disconnect
>   dbh.disconnect
>