I''m trying to deploy my rails app to the production server, and I''m having a heck of a time getting ruby and mysql to talk to each other on the server. Mysql and Ruby seem to be working fine independently, and I''ve compiled and installed the ruby-myqsl libraries found here: http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/ruby.html to no avail, as well as having ran: gem install mysql When I try to run ''rake migrate'' to get my db schema set up, or when I start the webbrick server I get an error: uninitialized constant Mysql'' and when I go into irb and run ''require "mysql"'' I get : LoadError: libmysqlclient.so.14: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory - /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/i686- linux/mysql.so Despite the fact that /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/i686- linux/mysql.so seems to be there. I''ve done a number of google searches and the like to no avail and this is pretty much my last hope of deploying my app. Any ideas? Environment: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 with latest Ruby, Mysql 4, Rails 1.1