For those of you who are interested in installing the Ruby and Python drivers for MySQL on Solaris, check out Arathi's blog entries for step-by-step instructions.
Ruby:
http://blogs.sun.com/Arathi/entry/ruby_mysql_module_installation_and
Ruby DBI:
http://blogs.sun.com/Arathi/entry/ruby_dbi_module_installation_and
Python:
http://blogs.sun.com/Arathi/entry/mysql_python_driver_installation_and
She recently wrote up these documents as she was learning more about MySQL. Hope that you find them useful.