Curt Hibbs wrote:
> Sarah Tanembaum wrote:
> 
>>Curt Hibbs wrote:
>>
>>>Jim Menard wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>I've been struggling with getting MySQL working on my work box
>>>>running Windows
>>>>XP. I installed DBI and DBD but kept seeing errors. Here are the
>>>>two actions
>>>>that finally got it running:
>>>>
>>>>1) Downloaded mysql.so from
>>>>http://seagecko.org/thoughts/2004/09/09/ruby-mysql-and-windows/ (thanks,
>>>>Justin) and installed it in
>>>>/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/i386-msvcrt. That
>>>>changed my error message to one that said something like "can't find
>>>>mysql_character_code_somethingorother in LIBMYSQL.DLL".
>>>>
>>>>2) Copied /mysql/lib/opt/libmysql.dll to /windows/system32,
>>
>>replacing the
>>
>>>>libmySQL.dll that was already there.
>>>>
>>>>Now I can use DBI and---even better---Rails on my work box. Yay!
>>>>I hope these
>>>>two tips help somebody else.
>>>
>>>
>>>I'm not sure why you had to go to all that trouble... for me, I just
>>>installed Ruby with te One-Click installer and them at the
>>
>>command line ran
>>
>>>"gem install rails" (which includes MySQL support). I can then use MySQL
>>>with Rails -- no problem (I never tried DBI or DBD, though).
>>>
>>>Curt
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>Not really! Is this okay or I did something wrong ..
>>
>>This is what I got ... after One-Click installer, I tried to install
>>Rails ...
>>
>>c:\apps\ruby>gem install rails
>>Attempting local installation of 'rails'
>>Local gem file not found: rails*.gem
>>Attempting remote installation of 'rails'
>>Successfully installed rails, version 0.9.3
>>Installing RDoc documentation for rails-0.9.3...
>>WARNING: Generating RDoc on .gem that may not have RDoc.
>>
>>lib/binding_of_caller.rb:4:25: Couldn't find Continuation. Assuming it's
>>a module
>>
>>lib/binding_of_caller.rb:36:21: Couldn't find Binding. Assuming it's a
>>module
>>
>>lib/rails_generator.rb:34:46: Skipping require of dynamic string:
>>"#{path}/#{name}_generator.rb"
>>
>>C:\apps\ruby>
> 
> 
> 
> Those are just warning messages from RDoc when the RDoc documentation was
> getting generated. Unfortunately there is currently no way to suppress them,
> and many people are mislead into thinking that something went wrong with the
> installation.
> 
> Curt
> 
> 
> 
Thanks for the info. I guess I can just ignore them.