Comments on: Ruby MySQL adapter on Windows

By: marco

marco — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 09:54:34 +0000

Hi, thanks…

unfortunately the file ‘mysql-noinstall-5.0.89-win32.zip’ is NO MORE AVAILABLE on the web site indicated (there aren’t any mirrors…)

Can you suggest me how I can have the file ‘libmysql.dll’ for mysql 5.0?

Prommaneore — Sat, 19 Feb 2011 02:41:14 +0000

hi, new to the site, thanks.

Florian — Sat, 15 Jan 2011 17:58:40 +0000

Tanks very much this worked for me. I just started learning ruby and I couldn’t get my first script using mysql to work, this was very frustrating.

Windows 7, MySQL 5.1.41, ruby 1.9.2, gems 1.3.7

Jen Bauer — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 13:28:44 +0000

correction: incompatibility issue with the mysql GEM for ruby and MYSQL 5.1.

In my case, I did not get as far as you did. The rails server failed to start and threw the DLL error message.

Jen Bauer — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 13:22:51 +0000

Thank you Yun Fu!!! After 5 hours of searching for a workaround, I found your page with luck.

My environment is ruby 1.9.2, gems 1.3.7, MY SQL server version 5.1.44, on Windows Vista (a.k.a “Diablo”).

For any others suffering in the same position, may I repeat the error message I received?

“The application has failed to start because LIBMYSQL.dll was not found.”

Copying LIBMYSQL.dll to ruby “bin” fails / failed / did / will not work / did not fix or solve the problem.

As you state above, the problem is an incompatibility issue with ruby and LIBMYSQL.dll for MYSQL 5.1.

I hope other people will find your page even quicker now. Thanks so much again for posting this valuable information.

Thomas — Sun, 12 Dec 2010 15:57:35 +0000

It works with Ruby 1.9.2p0 and Rails 3 also. Thanks.

John — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 18:01:19 +0000

Wow. Would have saved about 3 hours if I had found this sooner. Google bait: windows ruby segmentation fault mysql 5.1

Thanks again.

Nick — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 22:24:39 +0000

Add me to the list of those whom you have saved. Thank you!

Mark — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 17:06:37 +0000

Thank you very much. I had know idea why this error was happening.

Sachio Iwamoto — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 17:39:35 +0000

Wow, you’re awesome! I was almost giving it up after spending lots of time.

My environment: Ruby 1.8.7, MySQL gem 2.8.1, Rails 2.3.8. Windows XP and MySQL 5.1.