Is Datamapper's dm_mysql_adapter gem supported on windows?

Question

I am wanting to play some more with Ruby and currently seem to have a grasp of sinatra, but would also like to now pull in data from a relational database. I tend to use Mys

Answer 1

DataMapper and DataObjects (the lower layer that connects to the DB) do works on Windows.

However, seems that do_mysql 0.10.7 is missing the precompiled binary for x86-mingw32 platform:

http://rubygems.org/gems/do_mysql/versions

You can compile do_mysql yourself using MySQL Connector/C interface, which is independent of the version of MySQL you have installed in your computer.

Please take a look to this blog post which provides installation instructions:

http://blog.mmediasys.com/2011/07/07/installing-mysql-on-windows-7-x64-and-using-ruby-with-it/

The instructions are for mysql gem, but changing it to do_mysql should work (except for the example code which is MySQL specific.

Hope that helps.