# MySQL gem maintainer and project page?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/mysql-gem-maintainer-and-project-page/159007>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [January 30, 2009, 11:26am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/mysql-gem-maintainer-and-project-page/159007 "2009-01-30T11:26:10Z")\
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**Author:** ![luislavena](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/0ea827/32.png) [@luislavena](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/luislavena)\
**Post date:** [January 30, 2009, 11:26am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/mysql-gem-maintainer-and-project-page/159007/1 "2009-01-30T11:26:10Z")

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Hello Everybody,

I’m looking into RubyForge and the gem specification for any reference  
of authors to get in touch.

I will like to contribute with some corrections made for compiling on  
Windows (made on my fork at github and others locally).

Please: if you’re this gem author, could get in touch?

Thank you.

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**Author:** ![luislavena](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/0ea827/32.png) [@luislavena](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/luislavena)\
**Post date:** [January 30, 2009, 4:21pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/mysql-gem-maintainer-and-project-page/159007/2 "2009-01-30T16:21:35Z")

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Luis L. wrote:

> Hello Everybody,
> 
> I’m looking into RubyForge and the gem specification for any reference  
> of authors to get in touch.

[http://tomcopeland.blogs.com/juniordeveloper/2009/01/who-owns-what-rubygem-on-rubyforge.html](http://tomcopeland.blogs.com/juniordeveloper/2009/01/who-owns-what-rubygem-on-rubyforge.html)  
might help  
also if I’m not mistaken there’s a separate mysql windows gem maintainer  
versus the mysql gem maintainer. I have never had any luck getting in  
touch with any of them [or the mysql developer (Tomita Masahiro)  
either].

I asked “Roderick van Domburg” about it once.  
His reply:  
I am no longer maintaining the MySQL driver for Windows. The version  
that is  
distributed through RubyGems has a project page at  
[http://rubyforge.org/projects/mysql-win](http://rubyforge.org/projects/mysql-win) that lists Kevin W. as  
maintainer.

That’s as far as I got. Let me know if you’re able to get through to  
anybody.  
Cheers!  
-=r

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**Author:** ![luislavena](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/0ea827/32.png) [@luislavena](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/luislavena)\
**Post date:** [January 31, 2009, 4:54pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/mysql-gem-maintainer-and-project-page/159007/3 "2009-01-31T16:54:21Z")

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Hello, Luis

I have been playing with mysql-ruby-2.8 compilation last few days, and  
whould be glad to contribute to your subproject.

- Alex

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**Author:** ![luislavena](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/0ea827/32.png) [@luislavena](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/luislavena)\
**Post date:** [January 31, 2009, 8:13pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/mysql-gem-maintainer-and-project-page/159007/4 "2009-01-31T20:13:11Z")

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> I have been playing with mysql-ruby-2.8 compilation last few days, and  
> whould be glad to contribute to your subproject.
> 
> - Alex

That’s a great idea. If either of you would like contribute your  
patches also to mysqlplus [which a few people have contributed to when  
they couldn’t reach the real maintainers] that would be swell, too [for  
either]. Mohammed would probably even add you as commitors if you  
asked. Pull requests are also ok.

mysqlplus is a fork of the Masahiro’s mysql C library. But it’s a  
little more maintained [1.9 compat, has more thread\_nonblocking regions  
for 1.9] and also has added asynchronous call, but it’s essentially the  
same.

One thing that might be nice would be figure out if it’s possible to  
distribute windows binaries that work with both mysql 5.0 and 5.1.  
Currently there are no windows binary distros from it.

repository:

> **[GitHub - oldmoe/mysqlplus: An enhanced mysql driver with an async interface and...](https://github.com/oldmoe/mysqlplus/tree/master)**
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> master

mailing list:  
[http://groups.google.com/group/never-block?hl=en](http://groups.google.com/group/never-block?hl=en)

Take care.  
-=r