This is an API module that allows to access MySQL database from programs in Ruby programming language. Usually, it will be pulled in automatically by packages providing Ruby programs which need this capability, you only need to install it directly if you intend to write such programs yourself. . This package is a dependency package, which depends on the package containing actual Ruby MySQL module for the default Ruby version (currently 1.8).
libmysql-ruby1.8 | MySQL module for Ruby 1.8 | Mehr ...
This is an API module that allows to access MySQL database from programs in Ruby programming language. Usually, it will be pulled in automatically by packages providing Ruby programs which need this capability, you only need to install it directly if you intend to write such programs yourself. . This package contains MySQL module for Ruby 1.8.