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-rw-r--r--activerecord/CHANGELOG2
-rwxr-xr-xactiverecord/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/mysql_adapter.rb6
2 files changed, 3 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/activerecord/CHANGELOG b/activerecord/CHANGELOG
index 1ffb8480cb..91f96b4c31 100644
--- a/activerecord/CHANGELOG
+++ b/activerecord/CHANGELOG
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
*SVN*
+* MySQL: allow encoding option for mysql.rb driver. [Jeremy Kemper]
+
* Added option inheritance for find calls on has_and_belongs_to_many and has_many assosociations [DHH]. Example:
class Post
diff --git a/activerecord/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/mysql_adapter.rb b/activerecord/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/mysql_adapter.rb
index 14991c2171..4cc08c01ae 100755
--- a/activerecord/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/mysql_adapter.rb
+++ b/activerecord/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/mysql_adapter.rb
@@ -311,11 +311,7 @@ module ActiveRecord
def connect
encoding = @config[:encoding]
if encoding
- begin
- @connection.options(Mysql::SET_CHARSET_NAME, encoding)
- rescue
- raise ActiveRecord::ConnectionFailed, 'The :encoding option is only available for MySQL 4.1 and later with the mysql-ruby driver. Again, this does not work with the ruby-mysql driver or MySQL < 4.1.'
- end
+ @connection.options(Mysql::SET_CHARSET_NAME, encoding) rescue nil
end
@connection.real_connect(*@connection_options)
execute("SET NAMES '#{encoding}'") if encoding