Issues while connecting to mysql using ruby - mysql

Question

require 'rubygems'
require 'mysql'
db = Mysql.connect('localhost', 'root', '', 'mohit')
//db.rb:4: undefined method `connect' for Mysql:Class (NoMethodError)
//undefined method `real_connect' for Mysql:Class (NoMethodError)
db.query("CREATE TABLE people ( id integer primary key, name varchar(50), age integer)")
db.query("INSERT INTO people (name, age) VALUES('Chris', 25)")
begin
query = db.query('SELECT * FROM people')
puts "There were #{query.num_rows} rows returned"
query.each_hash do |h|
puts h.inspect
end
rescue
puts db.errno
puts db.error
end
error i am geting is:
undefined method `connect' for Mysql:Class (NoMethodError)
OR
undefined method `real_connect' for Mysql:Class (NoMethodError)
EDIT
return value of Mysql.methods
["private_class_method", "inspect", "name", "tap", "clone", "public_methods", "object_id", "__send__", "method_defined?", "instance_variable_defined?", "equal?", "freeze", "extend", "send", "const_defined?", "methods", "ancestors", "module_eval", "instance_method", "hash", "autoload?", "dup", "to_enum", "instance_methods", "public_method_defined?", "instance_variables", "class_variable_defined?", "eql?", "constants", "id", "instance_eval", "singleton_methods", "module_exec", "const_missing", "taint", "instance_variable_get", "frozen?", "enum_for", "private_method_defined?", "public_instance_methods", "display", "instance_of?", "superclass", "method", "to_a", "included_modules", "const_get", "instance_exec", "type", "<", "protected_methods", "<=>", "class_eval", "==", "class_variables", ">", "===", "instance_variable_set", "protected_instance_methods", "protected_method_defined?", "respond_to?", "kind_of?", ">=", "public_class_method", "to_s", "<=", "const_set", "allocate", "class", "new", "private_methods", "=~", "tainted?", "__id__", "class_exec", "autoload", "untaint", "nil?", "private_instance_methods", "include?", "is_a?"]
return value of Mysql.methods(false)
is []... blank array
EDIT2
mysql.rb file
# support multiple ruby version (fat binaries under windows)
begin
require 'mysql_api'
rescue LoadError
if RUBY_PLATFORM =~ /mingw|mswin/ then
RUBY_VERSION =~ /(\d+.\d+)/
require "#{$1}/mysql_api"
end
end
# define version string to be used internally for the Gem by Hoe.
class Mysql
module GemVersion
VERSION = '2.8.1'
end
end

Answer 1

I had this same problem and solved this way:
make sure you have installed only the gem ruby-mysql
and not the gem mysql. For me, now:
$ gem list --local | grep mysql
ruby-mysql (2.9.2)
If that is not the case, uninstall
$ sudo gem uninstall mysql
(I uninstalled every gem with mysql in its name)
and then reinstalled ruby-mysql.
In my case, because I have mysql installed in a usb disk
the installation command was:
sudo env ARCHFLAGS="-arch i386" gem install ruby-mysql --
--with-mysql-config=/Volumes/usb/opt/bin/osx/mysql/bin/mysql_config
--with-mysql-lib=/Volumes/usb/opt/bin/osx/mysql/lib/
--with-mysql-dir=/Volumes/usb/opt/bin/osx/mysql
(and I was using the 32bits binary for MacOs, don't know if that applies for you)
Finally, my ruby test program was
require 'rubygems'
require 'mysql'
dbh = Mysql.real_connect('localhost', 'root', 'your password', 'TEST')
res = dbh.query("select * from Persons;");
puts res.class
res.each do |row|
puts row.join(" ")
end

Answer 2

Short answer:
Remove mysql-ruby
Rebuild mysql-ruby
Reinstall mysql-ruby.
Alternative answer
Remove mysql-ruby
Install ruby-mysqlThe pure ruby MySQL protocol client.
Longer Explanation:
This just happened to me. My 2.8.1 mysql-ruby bindings had been built against libmysqlclient.so.15, and worked fine until I upgraded my MySQL installation and replaced that client library with .so.16. Rebuild resolved this issue.
The 3rd-party gem you used (I used it, too) introduces faulty logic in the mysql.rb file it supplies to trap an error on Windows systems. Notice that in the excerpt you posted, that this mysql.rb file does not re-raise the LoadError on non-Windows platforms. Bummer.
Edit
I contacted the gemspec author, and he has corrected the error! (2010-05-25) With luck no one else will be baffled by this silent failure.