i've fiddled with rails before but since i've just recieved the book,
i was going thru the depot app. when 'instant gratification' failed me
completely.

before starting the chapter, i installed the lastest version of ruby
and rails and, before that, installed the new mysql 4.1.14 for
windows, which i tested with mysql-front (did the old password thing,
all's working, all's swell).

then when i tried to scaffold the Product Admin (having created a
proper 'products' table), i got a "Before updating scaffolding from
new DB schema, try creating a tab
le for your model (Product)", which is usually related to rails
failing to map a Product model to a 'products' database, right?

well, not on my case. i have the database set, the table is set and
visible via Mysql-Front of phpmyadmin and ruby is connecting to Mysql,
otherwise the last error on the script/generate command would be
Access denied, etc, etc.

i tried then to update my mysql driver with gem update mysql and got this error:

Upgrading installed gems...
Attempting remote upgrade of mysql
Attempting remote installation of 'mysql'
Building native extensions.  This could take a while...
ERROR:  While executing gem ... (RuntimeError)
    ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.
Gem files will remain installed in c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mysql-
inspection.
  ruby extconf.rb update mysql\nchecking for mysql_query() in mysqlclien
 no
checking for main() in m.lib... yes
checking for mysql_query() in mysqlclient.lib... no
checking for main() in z.lib... no
checking for mysql_query() in mysqlclient.lib... no
checking for main() in socket.lib... no
checking for mysql_query() in mysqlclient.lib... no
checking for main() in nsl.lib... no
checking for mysql_query() in mysqlclient.lib... no

i made sure to install mysql 4.1.14 with the libraries... so i'm
pretty much stuck. maybe i should downgrade to mysql 4.0?

help!

spiceee.
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