ruby-1.8.7 + mysql-5.1.58 = Mysql::Error: #08S01Bad handshake

The issue: ruby-1.8.7 (compiled from src, not rpm) can't connect to mysql-5.1.58: "Mysql::Error: #08S01Bad handshake"

Environment: Linux Fedora Core 12 (or 14, does not matter) remote database server (different host) mysql-5.1.58 Ruby 1.8.7:

wget ftp://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/1.8/ruby-1.8.7-p352.tar.gz tar -xzvf ruby-1.8.7-p352.tar.gz cd ruby-1.8.7-p352 ./configure && make && make install ln -s /usr/local/bin/ruby /usr/bin/ruby

wget http://rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/74374/rubygems-1.6.0.tgz tar xzvf rubygems-1.3.7.tgz cd rubygems-1.3.7 ruby setup.rb

gem install rails -v=1.2.5

cd /var/www/ rails testproject cd testproject script/console

      ActiveRecord::Base.establish_connection(         :adapter => "mysql",         :host => "dbserver",         :username => "root",         :password => "pwd",         :database => "test",         :port => 3306       )

ActiveRecord::Base.connection.select_all("SELECT NOW();")

Mysql::Error: #08S01Bad handshake   from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.15.5/lib/ active_record/vendor/mysql.rb:523:in `read'   from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.15.5/lib/ active_record/vendor/mysql.rb:153:in `real_connect'   from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.15.5/lib/ active_record/connection_adapters/mysql_adapter.rb:389:in `connect' ....