From: Paul DuBois <paul@...>
Date: 2003-02-01T05:50:44+09:00
Subject: Re: [newbie] ruby-dbi

At 5:47 +0900 2/1/03, Travis Whitton wrote:
>  > Are these just two equivalent forms, or is the connection string 
>DBD dependent
>>  after the DBI:Driver: part of the string?
>
>>  "DBI:Pg:dbname=mydatabase;host=myhost.com"
>
>It must be DBD dependent because the above listed syntax doesn't work with
>MySQL. I believe I've used the ("DBI:Pg:mydatabase") syntax with Pg before,
>but I could be wrong. It's been a while...

DSN syntax is bound to be driver-dependent.  More info on the MySQL syntax
for Ruby DBI is here:

http://www.kitebird.com/articles/

>
>-Travis