Ive never installed like that. Ive always used the mysql odbc driver and 
used that

http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/connector/odbc/3.51.html

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Paul Hammer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, March 23, 2007 11:25 AM
Subject: Re: [Wtr-general] Watir / Ruby / Mysql


>
> Adam & Paul,
>
> Thanks for responding.  I was just reading the prerequisites section for 
> the
> Ruby DBI, and it says:
>
> "...you'll need to have both the Ruby MySQL module and the C API 
> installed."
>
> Can you tell me where I can find these packages?
>
> Paul
>
>
>>From: Paul Rogers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>Reply-To: [email protected]
>>To: [email protected]
>>Subject: Re: [Wtr-general] Watir / Ruby / Mysql
>>Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2007 16:13:16 -0600
>>
>>you can also just use odbc - the instructions on the kite bird site will
>>show you how, but you will also need the mysql odbc driver. google will
>>know where that is.
>>
>>Paul
>>
>>----- Original Message -----
>>From: Adam Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>Date: Tuesday, March 20, 2007 2:49 pm
>>Subject: Re: [Wtr-general] Watir / Ruby / Mysql
>>
>> > Paul,
>> > I don't think this is the same gem you loaded, but for my own
>> > use of a similar setup, I use Ruby DBI:
>> >
>> >        Usage: http://www.kitebird.com/articles/ruby-dbi.html
>> >        Download: http://rubyforge.org/projects/ruby-dbi/
>> >
>> > Hope that helps,
>> > Adam
>> >
>> > -----Original Message-----
>> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Hammer
>> > Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2007 3:07 PM
>> > To: [email protected]
>> > Subject: [Wtr-general] Watir / Ruby / Mysql
>> >
>> >
>> > I've been using Ruby with Watir for a few months now to scrape
>> > data off
>> > of internal web pages where I work.  I'm fairly happy with the
>> > results,although I want to improve these processes.  I want to put
>> > this data
>> > into mysql (yes, I've designed a schema).
>> >
>> > On a windows box, I have Watir running with Ruby, and I have mysql
>> > running stand alone.  I've used this command to load the mysql
>> > interface:
>> >
>> >  gem install mysql
>> >
>> > and this seemed to complete fine.  Then I used this statement to
>> > try and
>> > connect from ruby to mysql:
>> >
>> >     dbh = Mysql.real_connect("localhost", "root", "mysql", "test")
>> >
>> > and I got this message:
>> >
>> >  Error code: 1251
>> >  Error message: Client does not support authentication protocol
>> > requested by server; consider
>> >  upgrading MySQL client
>> >
>> > What am I missing?
>> >
>> > Paul
>> >
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