# MySQL driver test failures

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/mysql-driver-test-failures/54212>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [December 22, 2005, 9:48pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/mysql-driver-test-failures/54212 "2005-12-22T21:48:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![fxn](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/f/77aa72/32.png) [@fxn](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/fxn)\
**Post date:** [December 22, 2005, 9:48pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/mysql-driver-test-failures/54212/1 "2005-12-22T21:48:11Z")

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I am installing the MySQL driver 2.7 and get the four failures  
attached belowe on ruby test.rb. Are they known? Would you install  
the driver anyway?

Ruby is 1.8.3, and MySQL is 5.0.17, prepackaged for Mac OS X.

– fxn

% ruby ./test.rb  
Loaded suite ./test  
Started  
…FFF…F…  
…  
Finished in 1.203497 seconds.

1. Failure:  
test\_fetch\_bigint(TC\_MysqlStmt2) [./test.rb:799]:  
\<[-1]\> expected but was  
\<[9223372036854775807]\>.

2. Failure:  
test\_fetch\_bigint\_unsigned(TC\_MysqlStmt2) [./test.rb:812]:  
\<[-1]\> expected but was  
\<[0]\>.

3. Failure:  
test\_fetch\_binary(TC\_MysqlStmt2) [./test.rb:1009]:  
\<[“abc”]\> expected but was  
\<[“abc\000\000\000\000\000\000\000”]\>.

4. Failure:  
test\_fetch\_double(TC\_MysqlStmt2) [./test.rb:860]:  
\<-1.79769313486232e+308\> expected but was  
\<-1.79769313486232e+308\>.

110 tests, 344 assertions, 4 failures, 0 errors