but it doesn't work. any suggestion as to how to solve this?
"It doesn't work" is not very informative. How doesn't it work, same error
message as before, or the MySQL gem doesn't install (please give error message
if so). What platform are you on (Linux, Windows, Mac OSX). More detail is
needed to help you.
I know it's something silly but have you tried to include a require
sentence for MysqlCompat::MysqlRes (I lose a lot of time with a
'NameError' problem like this and it was a missing require