Mysql2

Mysql2 was developed at GitHub for simplifying the way Ruby developers work with MySQL.

With Mysql2, it is extremely easy to connect to a database, run MySQL queries and then return the results in a readable format.

This is Mysql2 links to the libmysqlclient C library packaged with the MySQL core and runs query through a native interface. This yields faster results and helps boost your performance as well.

Mysql2 comes with packaged support for ActiveRecord and Rails.

What is new in this release:

• Bugfix to avoid race condition with active connections that error out.
• Revert back to using xmalloc/xfree for allocations.
• Avoid potentially unsafe Ruby C API usage w/o GVL.
• Reacquire GVL before retrying on EINTR on connect.

What is new in version 0.4.1:

• Bugfix to avoid race condition with active connections that error out.
• Revert back to using xmalloc/xfree for allocations.
• Avoid potentially unsafe Ruby C API usage w/o GVL.
• Reacquire GVL before retrying on EINTR on connect.

What is new in version 0.3.18:

• Bugfix to avoid race condition with active connections that error out.
• Revert back to using xmalloc/xfree for allocations.
• Avoid potentially unsafe Ruby C API usage w/o GVL.
• Reacquire GVL before retrying on EINTR on connect.

Requirements:

• Ruby 1.8.7 or higher