Tried ROR before but I never really get the chance of building an app with it so I figured I'll give it another shot last night.

I was following a tutorial I find somewhere on the internet and it was talking about how to setup rails to connect to MySQL database, but I get an error! so I tried compiling Ruby from source instead and installing a fresh rails and a few gems. Didn't get the latest stable release of Ruby but I have the reasonable 1.8.7, I guess its okay for now since I'm just trying it out and not yet sure where this is heading.

Here's my current version or ruby, rails and gem:

121:~ marconi$ ruby --version
ruby 1.8.7 (2008-08-11 patchlevel 72) [i686-darwin9.8.0]
121:~ marconi$ rails --version
Rails 2.3.4
121:~ marconi$ gem --version
1.3.5
121:~ marconi$