# Who is the MySQL/Ruby binding gem author?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/who-is-the-mysql-ruby-binding-gem-author/172737>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [July 27, 2009, 7:59am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/who-is-the-mysql-ruby-binding-gem-author/172737 "2009-07-27T07:59:10Z")\
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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:** [July 27, 2009, 7:59am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/who-is-the-mysql-ruby-binding-gem-author/172737/1 "2009-07-27T07:59:10Z")

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Hello everybody,

In my quest to conquer the world, I’m looking for information on how  
to get in touch with MySQL/Ruby gem author.

I’m aware that “mysql” gem is a wrapper around tmtm C extension:

[http://www.tmtm.org/en/mysql/ruby/](http://www.tmtm.org/en/mysql/ruby/)

And that this project is published here:

[http://rubyforge.org/projects/mysql-ruby/](http://rubyforge.org/projects/mysql-ruby/)

The problem with these releases is the lack of RubyGems packages and  
even worse, the lack of Windows native gems.

I’ve worked on this and published a blog post about newer gems based  
on 2.8.1 codebase:

[http://blog.mmediasys.com/2009/07/06/getting-started-with-rails-and-mysql/](http://blog.mmediasys.com/2009/07/06/getting-started-with-rails-and-mysql/)

Will love get those integrated and published properly to RubyForge.

If you’re the author of mysql gem published on RubyForge, please  
contact me over this mailing list or directly to luislavena at gmail  
dot com.

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:** [July 27, 2009, 11:16pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/who-is-the-mysql-ruby-binding-gem-author/172737/2 "2009-07-27T23:16:27Z")

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On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 02:58:06PM +0900, Luis L. wrote:

> Will love get those integrated and published properly to RubyForge.
> 
> If you’re the author of mysql gem published on RubyForge, please  
> contact me over this mailing list or directly to luislavena at gmail  
> dot com.

Did you try emailing the author listed at the bottom of the page, TOMITA  
Masahiro (removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid)?

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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:** [July 27, 2009, 11:50pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/who-is-the-mysql-ruby-binding-gem-author/172737/3 "2009-07-27T23:50:59Z")

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On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 11:58 PM, Luis L. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)  
wrote:

> If you’re the author of mysql gem published on RubyForge, please  
> contact me over this mailing list or directly to luislavena at gmail  
> dot com.

I’ve been curious how the mysql gem comes about as well. At least one  
of  
the mirrors on RubyForge installs a version called 2.7pre2 or something  
which has a nasty habit of completely hosing RubyGems.

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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:** [July 27, 2009, 11:55pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/who-is-the-mysql-ruby-binding-gem-author/172737/4 "2009-07-27T23:55:40Z")

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On Jul 27, 6:15 pm, Aaron P. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)  
wrote:

> > And that this project is published here:
> 
> > Will love get those integrated and published properly to RubyForge.
> 
> > If you’re the author of mysql gem published on RubyForge, please  
> > contact me over this mailing list or directly to luislavena at gmail  
> > dot com.
> 
> Did you try emailing the author listed at the bottom of the page, TOMITA  
> Masahiro (removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid)?

TOMITA is the author of MySQL/Ruby bindings, but not the gem Author.

[http://rubyforge.org/projects/mysql-ruby/](http://rubyforge.org/projects/mysql-ruby/)

I after posting this I think I found that Kevin W. is the gem  
author:

[http://rubyforge.org/projects/mysql-win](http://rubyforge.org/projects/mysql-win)

Going to get in touch with him to work out a solution for the updated  
gem.

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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:** [July 28, 2009, 12:00am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/who-is-the-mysql-ruby-binding-gem-author/172737/5 "2009-07-28T00:00:56Z")

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On Jul 27, 6:49 pm, Tony A. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

> 

You got bite by that too. Let me know what are your results using  
“mysql” from here?

gem install mysql --source [http://gems.rubyforge.org](http://gems.rubyforge.org)

Should be exactly the same as the extension, but works with 1.9 and  
automatically detects mysql configuration (so is a plus over the  
original plain extension).