title: Ruby, Rails: mysql2 gem, does somebody use this gem? Is it stable?
body: <p>I found <a href="http://github.com/brianmario/mysql2" rel="noreferrer">mysql2 gem</a>. It works fine with ruby 1.9 and utf8 encoding (as opposed to mysql gem).</p>
  
  <p>But I have doubts. Does somebody use this gem in production? What about the performance test? Is it faster than mysql gem? Is it stable?</p>