Getting Mysql to work with Ruby and installing gem

Rails
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I am trying to get ruby to work with MySQL. I am having trouble getting the gem to install. Ruby version is 2.7.5 and Rails is 6.0.4.6. The editor if Visual Studio on a Windows machine. The gem is mysql2, but if there is something better that would be OK.

Any suggestions.

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Is more information needed, or does no one have any idea?

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Hi nealrm!
Could you provide more details about the error you’re getting?

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Thanks for the reply. Wasn’t sure if anyone was going to help.

For the mysql2 I kept getting installation errors. Since it’s been a month, I no longer have the exact wording.
I also tried ruby-mysql. For that gem I kept getting errors relating to Unix. Since I am on a Windows machine, I didn’t continue on.