From: timsuth@... (Tim Sutherland)
Date: 2004-01-30T19:29:52+09:00
Subject: Re: naif question: ruby and mysql

In article <Xns947ED3BE6ECA8probertmnospamacmorg@206.172.150.14>, Mark Probert
wrote:
>
>I have the need to get information from a MySQL database and I'd like to 
>use Ruby.
>
>My problem is that the database is not on the same machine as the Ruby 
>client and I am not able to install the MySQL libraries that the RAA 
>interface seem to require.
>
>Is there a pure-Ruby socket interface to MySQL?
>Or is my understanding way off?

There are two MySQL libraries for Ruby:

* mysql-ruby: a wrapper around the C libmysqlclient library.
* ruby-mysql: a pure Ruby socket interface