daniel-dlds

I looked at the generated extconf.rb for mysql2, and found an option that takes this a little further gem install mysql2 -- --with-mysql-dir="C:\Program Files\MariaDB 11.8" the native extension compiles, but...

I found this stack overflow post : [ruby on rails - Installing MySQL2 Gem on Windows - Stack Overflow](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/21126326/installing-mysql2-gem-on-windows) which explains what needs to be done to the mysql connector...