From: Luis Lavena <luislavena@...>
Date: 2009-07-28T07:00:05+09:00
Subject: Re: Who is the MySQL/Ruby binding gem author?

On Jul 27, 6:49 pm, Tony Arcieri <t...@medioh.com> wrote:
> [Note:  parts of this message were removed to make it a legal post.]
>
> On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 11:58 PM, Luis Lavena <luislav...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > If you're the author of mysql gem published on RubyForge, please
> > contact me over this mailing list or directly to luislavena at gmail
> > dot com.
>
> I've been curious how the mysql gem comes about as well.  At least one of
> the mirrors on RubyForge installs a version called 2.7pre2 or something
> which has a nasty habit of completely hosing RubyGems.
>

You got bite by that too. Let me know what are your results using
"mysql" from here?

gem install mysql --source http://gems.rubyforge.org

Should be exactly the same as the extension, but works with 1.9 and
automatically detects mysql configuration (so is a plus over the
original plain extension).

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Luis Lavena