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# Ruby

Ruby connector overview for MariaDB, pointing to the mysql2 gem as the recommended library for connecting Ruby applications to MariaDB databases.

The MySQL API module for Ruby should generally work with MariaDB as well:

* [mysql2](https://rubygems.org/gems/mysql2)

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