On Jul 27, 6:49=A0pm, Tony Arcieri <t... / medioh.com> wrote: > [Note: =A0parts of this message were removed to make it a legal post.] > > On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 11:58 PM, Luis Lavena <luislav... / gmail.com> wrot= e: > > If you're the author of mysql gem published on RubyForge, please > > contact me over this mailing list or directly to luislavena at gmail > > dot com. > > I've been curious how the mysql gem comes about as well. =A0At least one = of > the mirrors on RubyForge installs a version called 2.7pre2 or something > which has a nasty habit of completely hosing RubyGems. > You got bite by that too. Let me know what are your results using "mysql" from here? gem install mysql --source http://gems.rubyforge.org Should be exactly the same as the extension, but works with 1.9 and automatically detects mysql configuration (so is a plus over the original plain extension). -- Luis Lavena