Gem mysql install error

Ruby
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I tried installing the mysql gem like so:

C:\Documents and Settings\Tim>gem install mysql
Select which gem to install for your platform (i386-mswin32)

  1. mysql 2.7.3 (mswin32)
  2. mysql 2.7.1 (mswin32)
  3. mysql 2.7 (ruby)
  4. mysql 2.6 (ruby)
  5. Skip this gem
  6. Cancel installation

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Successfully installed mysql-2.7.3-mswin32
Installing ri documentation for mysql-2.7.3-mswin32…
Installing RDoc documentation for mysql-2.7.3-mswin32…
While generating documentation for mysql-2.7.3-mswin32
… MESSAGE: Unhandled special: Special: type=17, text=""
… RDOC args: --op c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/doc/mysql-2.7.3-mswin32/
rdoc --exc
lude ext --main README --quiet ext README docs/README.html
(continuing with the rest of the installation)

C:\Documents and Settings\Tim>

Apparently, the rdoc documentation doesn’t install correctly. When I
click on mysql’s rdoc link from the RubyGems Documentation Index, it
just says webpage not found. Is there some way to install this
documentation? Or failing that, is the documentation somewhere on the
web?

Also, I am a ruby newbie so I don’t know where to find the ri
documentation which seemingly was installed. And does ri =
reference implementation?

Many thanks to anyone who can help!

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On Sat, Mar 1, 2008 at 4:25 AM, Tim [email protected] wrote:

  1. Cancel installation
    lude ext --main README --quiet ext README docs/README.html

Also, I am a ruby newbie so I don’t know where to find the ri
documentation which seemingly was installed. And does ri =
reference implementation?

  1. you can most probably generate the rdocs from the installed gem - run
    “rdoc”
    somewhere in the mysql gem directory (I don’t have my kmachine here,
    so I can’t tell you more now).

  2. for ri documentation, there’s ri command, e.g. “ri Array” or
    “String#length”. You may want to try fast-ri
    (eigenclass.org)

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Tim wrote:

Apparently, the rdoc documentation doesn’t install correctly.

I think rdoc doesn’t like trying to include html files. If anyone knows
how to fix that, let me know. You can go to
MySQL/Ruby and get the same thing as what the
rdoc should have been.

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Thanks, guys. With your assistance I’m without the documentation no
longer :slight_smile: