On 9/12/07, Pete DeLaurentis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Luis, > > About this compiled MySQL adapter... > > I haven't found much info on it, but from what I have read, it looks > like it is useful if the database is residing locally on the same > machine. However, if you connect to the database via HTTP (which is > what we're doing), it's not used. >
> Is this correct? Not exactly. Native bindings (the compiled ones) offer besides better performance (since they are a ruby extension in C), a bit of memory-wise use. Maybe someone could provide better insight information, but AFAIK, it is the recommended method of running rails+mysql. Since I don't have a mac, couldn't point you the right tutorial on getting mysql extension built on OSX, but try searching google for "mysql rails bindings osx" (also "gem install mysql osx" as keywords will raise some good results). -- Luis Lavena Multimedia systems - Leaders are made, they are not born. They are made by hard effort, which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile. Vince Lombardi _______________________________________________ Mongrel-users mailing list [email protected] http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/mongrel-users
