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
to delinkify Luis' answer, it looks something like this:
gem install do_mysql --platform=ruby -- --with-mysql-dir="C:/PROGRA~1/MySQL/MYSQLS~1.7/"
where the "mysql-dir" path is the short version of the "MySQL Server 5.7" directory in "C:\Program Files" on a x64 system.