From: Brian Candler <B.Candler@...>
Date: 2003-06-24T03:55:38+09:00
Subject: Re: Newbie dbi install problem

On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 11:12:01PM +0900, David D'Andrea wrote:
> I'm just starting out, reading the pickaxe, this forum, and trying to 
> get a handle on OOP/design patterns.  I'm hoping to use Ruby for 
> database applications, as I've been going crazy with unstructured code 
> in FileMaker (!!!).
> 
> I've just installed dbi (this on OS X):
...
> but the test script from Paul DuBois' tutorial 
> (http://www.kitebird.com/articles/ruby-dbi.html) doesn't execute 
> correctly:
> 
> [Chiclet:~/Rubydev/dbi] davidd% ruby simple.rb
> /sw/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.6/dbi/dbi.rb:502:in `load_driver': Could not 
> load driver (undefined method `Driver' for nil) (DBI::InterfaceError)

You need to install the ruby-mysql package, *as well as* the ruby-dbi
package. (ruby-dbi is just a wrapper around ruby-dbi, which is in turn a
Ruby wrapper around the native C API)

Regards,

Brian.