[this message is crossposted to the Cygwin- and RubyTalk mailing lists]. Running Ruby 1.8.6 under Cygwin, i.e.
$ /usr/bin/ruby --version ruby 1.8.6 (2007-03-13 patchlevel 0) [i386-cygwin] the statement require 'mysql' raises the following error message: /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mysql-2.7.3-mswin32/ext/mysql.so: Permission denied - /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mysql-2.7.3-mswin32/ext/mysql.so (LoadError) from /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:32:in `require' The access rights to mysql.so are as follows: -rw-r--r-- 1 rfischer mkgroup-l-d 81984 May 21 18:08 /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mysql-2.7.3-mswin32/ext/mysql.so Using the mysql module with Ruby on Windows outside Cygwin works well. What could be the reason for this problem? Ronald -- Ronald Fischer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Phone: +49-89-452133-162 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/