From: Luis Lavena <luislavena@...>
Date: 2009-11-11T04:40:06+09:00
Subject: Re: Installing Rails: MySQL issue?

On Nov 10, 2:24 pm, Brian Tickler <btick...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am installing Rails, with MySQL, based on the steps found at:
>
> http://www.wdvl.com/Authoring/ror/Vista/saurabh_bhatia10202009.html
>

Please use MinGW based Ruby instead of One-Click:

http://blog.mmediasys.com/2009/07/06/getting-started-with-rails-and-mysql/

You can download latest RC1 instead of Preview2:
http://rubyforge.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=35591

Please now use official gems.rubyforge.org without specifying
rubyinstaller source during gem installation.

>
> C:\> gem install mysql
>
> Running the above command does the trick most of the time. However we
> need to take care that MySQL gem gives various problems related to the
> installation path. In order to resolve that, we can compile it with
> various options manually defined."

The binary version of MySQL gem was built against MySQL 5.0. As
mentioned in the post, using 5.1 will generate issues, and most likely
segmentation faults.

> Well, maybe I am having the aforementioned problem with the installation
> path...when I enter "gem install mysql" (with MySQL 5.1 already
> installed and tested), I get a heap of "No definition for XYZ" messages.
> The page recommends compiling it manually, but does not give any
> indication on how to do this :).

You can safely ignore "No definition for XYZ", that is a issue with
RDoc trying to generate documentation for SWIG interface, and failing
due the lack of comments.

> Is there any way to run this manually, or to confirm whether the
> database connector is functional?

Using the above examples you get a functional Ruby and MySQL.

HTH,
--
Luis Lavena