How do you create prepared statements with the mysql2 gem?

Question

I\'ve tried using google to answer this seemingly simple question, but to my surprise, it didn\'t help.

I have code in my rails application currently using the \'pre

Answer 1

I swapped out to use https://github.com/tmtm/ruby-mysql instead of mysql2. I'm surprised this isn't a bigger deal-breaker for people using the mysql2 gem. I guess people who dig this deep into writing SQL have swapped to Postgresql?

In case others are having trouble with gem install ruby-mysql followed by require "mysql" where you get a Ruby error like 'read_eof_packet': packet is not EOF (Mysql::ProtocolError) the trick is to gem uninstall ruby-mysql and instead gem install ruby-mysql-ext (or use gem 'ruby-mysql-ext' in your Gemfile) which will swap out the Ruby implementation which isn't yet Ruby 2.0 compatible (or at least, didn't work for me) for simple C bindings.

To be clear, if you do require 'mysql' while both ruby-mysql-ext and ruby-mysql are installed, it will load the Ruby version. There may be a way to require within a specific gem, but I didn't have time to look it up.