--0023544713ec20270204b7fb8d41 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 2:16 PM, Srimanta Chakraborty <srimanta12 / gmail.com>wrote: > Hi, > Just yesterday I successfully installed ruby in my pc, means I am > new in this technology. > Today I am trying to fetch the data in my ruby application and > successfully done this. Now I want to speed up the performance of the > fetching data by making use of prepare and execute method.In case of > select query also I am using this like > > require 'mysql' > I see more relevance in 'mysql2' This are just the 2 top Google results for "gem list mysql mysql2" Other results there will be relevant too. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3001243/ruby-rails-mysql2-gem-does-somebody-use-this-gem-is-it-stable https://github.com/brianmario/mysql2 maybe some methods that you found in documentation where not even implemented myslq but only in newer mysql2. try the command: $ gem list -r mysql (this will report all "remote" gems that start with mysql....) HTH, Peter --0023544713ec20270204b7fb8d41--