From: Joshua Schairbaum <joshua.schairbaum@...>
Date: 2008-01-05T05:32:09+09:00
Subject: Re: DBI doesn't seem to install correctly on CentOS

Try this to use DBI with MySQL:

ruby setup.rb config --with=dbi,dbd_mysql

Regards,
ch0wda

On Jan 4, 2008, at 3:19 PM, Xeno Campanoli wrote:

> I tried installing with the old tarfile sequence using setup.rb, as I
> couldn't get gems to work and there is apparently no yum install on
> CentOS.  When I went through the sequence found on
> http://www.kitebird.com/articles/ruby-dbi.html#TOC_3, and then  
> tried the
> simple.rb script, I got:
>
> % ruby simple.rb
> /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/dbi.rb:344:in 'load_driver': Could not  
> load
> driver (no such file to load -- mysql) (DBI::InterfaceError)
> 	from /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/dbi.rb:227:in '_get_full_driver'
> 	from /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/dbi.rb:213:in 'connect'
> 	from simple.rb:9
>
> I presume I'm using old instructions or incomplete ones.  Does anyone
> have a more recent set of instructions, or can someone fill in my gap?
>
> Sincerely, Xeno
>
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