Ruby, Rails: mysql2 gem, does somebody use this gem? Is it stable?

Question

I found mysql2 gem. It works fine with ruby 1.9 and utf8 encoding (as opposed to mysql gem).

But I have doubts. Does somebody use this gem in production? What about

Answer 1

If anyone wants to use the mysql gem instead of the mysql2 gem in Rails 3.0.0 for Windows, I wrote a short article that explains how to tweak the rails app generator.