From: Shanon Fernald <info@...>
Date: 2004-03-23T16:19:54+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby dbi installation issue

Nevermind, I figured it out myself.

I realized I needed a program called MySQL Ruby Module ver2.4.5.

Found it on a mostly japanese site. I think it was a small miracle that I
got it to work.

Any hope of DBI getting included in the standard distribution someday. How
can anyone function without databases these days?


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Shanon Fernald" <info@irvinehosting.net>
To: "ruby-talk ML" <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>
Sent: Monday, March 22, 2004 11:05 PM
Subject: ruby dbi installation issue


Anybody know what this is about?

Installing ruby dbi on:

ArchLinux
Ruby 1.8.1
Ruby DBI .21


I run this:

   % ruby setup.rb config --with=dbi,dbd_mysql
   % ruby setup.rb setup
   % ruby setup.rb install


Everything seems to install fine. Then I test it with this program:

    # simple.rb - simple MySQL script using Ruby DBI module

   require "dbi"

   begin
       # connect to the MySQL server
       dbh = DBI.connect("dbi:Mysql:test:localhost", "testuser", "testpass")
       # get server version string and display it
       row = dbh.select_one("SELECT VERSION()")
       puts "Server version: " + row[0]
   rescue DBI::DatabaseError => e
       puts "An error occurred"
       puts "Error code: #{e.err}"
       puts "Error message: #{e.errstr}"
   ensure
       # disconnect from server
       dbh.disconnect if dbh
   end
and I get the following error:/usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/dbi/dbi.rb:490:in
`load_driver':  is not a class/module (TypeError)        from
/usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/dbi/dbi.rb:392:in `_get_full_driver'        from
/usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/dbi/dbi.rb:372:in `connect'        from
simple.rb:5Thanks for any help at all in advance!!