Mockery for beginners

I have just spent far too long trying to get Scrubyt, rails and MySQL working. Scrubyt is amazing but very particular about the versions of Gems it needs. When and if you install, remember to install with gem install -v ... e.t.c. and you will need to remove some stuff and put older versions in, for instance RubyInline will be too new for scrubyt. That's annoying. However the killer was MySQL, I spent a while just not being able to get Ruby to call it until http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/ruby/wiki/Troubleshooting solved my problems. Now I am scraping pages easily and saving table info into MySQL in erm 5 lines of code...

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