From: Erik Hollensbe <erik@...>
Date: 2008-10-16T02:05:15+09:00
Subject: Re: Using DBI and MySQL gems

Owein Herrmann wrote:
>> I don't know if this is recommended usage anymore, but provided you 
>> haven't installed dbi with the provided setup.rb, "require 'dbi'" should 
>> work without the gem statements.
> Hmmmm... that definitely does not work. When I say "require 'dbi'" it 
> returns true, but then dbh = DBI.connect('DBI:Mysql:money', 'mysqluser', 
> 'pass3') causes an exception about DBI not being defined... I'm not on 
> my ruby box right now, so I cannot give the exact notation... basically, 
> what I show above works, the two gem commands and then the require.

Is this 1.9? I'm not sure how rubygems would be automatically required
in 1.8.x. I guess it's also possible that the require overrides have
been removed from rubygems. require_gem has been deprecated for some
time and probably has been removed by now.

Well, either way, I can test it at home (personally, I prefer the gem 
statements to magic, moving-target require statements) but it doesn't 
seem like your problem has anything to do with DBI or DBI::DBD::Mysql, 
but either rubygems or your misunderstanding of the version you're 
working with.

-Erik
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