Dear Bruce,
The Rails Documentation Project is your ticket 
http://www.railsdocumentation.org/getting_started_with_rails.pdf
It is a work in progress, but the mysql stuff is done in the first couple of chapters.
Worth the read.
Regards
Mikel
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