From: Xeno Campanoli <xcampanoli@...>
Date: 2008-01-05T08:12:30+09:00
Subject: Re: DBI doesn't seem to install correctly on CentOS

Joshua Schairbaum wrote:
> I'm not sure if you need this or not because I'm just getting into using
> DBI myself, but did you install the mysql drivers?  In the README file,
> it mentioned that the Mysql DBD relied upon them.  To quote:
> 
> MySQL
>    Depends on the mysql package from http://www.tmtm.org/mysql or available
>    from the RAA.

I cannot read that website, which I see as Japanese.  Perhaps you could
translate.  I have installed mysql-server and the shell command "mysql"
starts and works from Bash.  As I said elsewhere:

> 
> the file is:
> cksum dbi-0.1.1.tar.gz
> 3411302326 155533 dbi-0.1.1.tar.gz
> 
> I also just made sure libdbi-driver is installed by yum, among others,
> and that has made no difference.
>> > 

The implication may be that there is another driver thingy I need to
install, but if so, the instructions for doing so are spectacularly
unclear and not the kind of testimony that brings employers clamoring at
your door.  I thought lots of people used Mysql in Rails, but perhaps
the world has moved on and Ruby Mysql DBI is so badly atrophied that it
is no longer maintained...?

> 
> Regards.
> ch0wda
> 
> On Jan 4, 2008, at 4:57 PM, Xeno Campanoli wrote:
> 
>> Xeno Campanoli wrote:
>>> Xeno Campanoli wrote:
>>>> Joshua Schairbaum wrote:
>>>>> Try this to use DBI with MySQL:
>>>>>
>>>>> ruby setup.rb config --with=dbi,dbd_mysql
>>
>> the file is:
>> cksum dbi-0.1.1.tar.gz
>> 3411302326 155533 dbi-0.1.1.tar.gz
>>
>> I also just made sure libdbi-driver is installed by yum, among others,
>> and that has made no difference.
>>>
>>> I just tried rebooting also, and that doesn't help.
>>>
>>> xc
>>>
>>>> That is in fact what I did, followed by:
>>>>
>>>> ruby setup.rb setup
>>>> ruby setup.rb install
>>>>
>>>> and my results were what I described already.  I apparently need to
>>>> know
>>>> the driver I need to load, or perhaps the yum install sequence I
>>>> need to
>>>> use, or perhaps I just need to reboot.  However, your suggestions were
>>>> what I already did.
>>>>
>>>> xc
>>>>
>>>>> 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
>>>>>>
>>>>>> -- 
>>>>>> The only sustainable organizing methods focus not on scale,
>>>>>> but on good design of the functional unit,
>>>>>> not on winning battles, but on preservation.
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>> -- 
>> The only sustainable organizing methods focus not on scale,
>> but on good design of the functional unit,
>> not on winning battles, but on preservation.
>>
> 
> 
> 


-- 
The only sustainable organizing methods focus not on scale,
but on good design of the functional unit,
not on winning battles, but on preservation.