If you’re trying to get RubyOnRails connected to MySQL on Windows Vista as we have done recently at Vamosa, then keep in mind that the current latest versions of MySQL and the MySQL gem are incompatible with each other. At the time of writing, the current versions of MySQL is 5.1 and the MySQL gem is currently at version 2.7.3. We were unable to get this combination to work together and ended up reverting to MySQL 5.0 and MySQL gem 2.7.1. gem install -v "2.7.1" mysql I don’t think you’re missing anything substantial from either MySQL 5.1 or the 2.7.3...

First of all, an admission… My name is Ijonas, I used to be a Java programmer. I’ve been clean for a year and a half. So much for my “Java Anonymous” meeting. In that period I’ve been experimenting and pondering about Ruby and of course RubyOnRails. During such ponderings I’ve pondered why so many experienced Java programmers are jumping ship onto duck-typed languaged such as Ruby and Python (of which I’m a massive fan). I’m going to write a bunch of posts about Ruby and the impact on solving certain class of computing science problems, that I believe are...