<p>This is nothing new or monumental, but I thought I'd post it anyway. I recently picked up a new <a title="My brand new Macbook Pro" href="http://media.tumblr.com/DHhoTI5QFfzh2pzwX6velMzjo1_500.jpg">Macbook Pro</a>, and while setting it up for Rails development, I ran into a little issue while installing the mysql gem. I'm sure this little tid-bit is probably posted a million other places on the intarwebs, but one more can't hurt.</p>
<p>So here's the problem. You attempt to run a rake db task, and you get this...</p>
<pre class="terminal">!!! The bundled mysql.rb driver has been removed from Rails 2.2. Please install the mysql gem and try again: gem install mysql.<br />rake aborted!<br />no such file to load -- mysql</pre>
<p>So you do as it says and attempt to install the gem...</p>
<pre class="terminal">Building native extensions. This could take a while...<br />ERROR: Error installing mysql:<br /> ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.<br /><br />/System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/bin/ruby extconf.rb install mysql<br />checking for mysql_query() in -lmysqlclient... no<br />checking for main() in -lm... yes<br />checking for mysql_query() in -lmysqlclient... no<br />checking for main() in -lz... yes<br />checking for mysql_query() in -lmysqlclient... no<br />checking for main() in -lsocket... no<br />checking for mysql_query() in -lmysqlclient... no<br />checking for main() in -lnsl... no<br />checking for mysql_query() in -lmysqlclient... no<br />*** extconf.rb failed ***<br />Could not create Makefile due to some reason, probably lack of<br />necessary libraries and/or headers. Check the mkmf.log file for more<br />details. You may need configuration options.<br /><br />Provided configuration options:<br /> --with-opt-dir<br /> --without-opt-dir<br /> --with-opt-include<br /> --without-opt-include=${opt-dir}/include<br /> --with-opt-lib<br /> --without-opt-lib=${opt-dir}/lib<br /> --with-make-prog<br /> --without-make-prog<br /> --srcdir=.<br /> --curdir<br /> --ruby=/System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/bin/ruby<br /> --with-mysql-config<br /> --without-mysql-config<br /> --with-mysql-dir<br /> --without-mysql-dir<br /> --with-mysql-include<br /> --without-mysql-include=${mysql-dir}/include<br /> --with-mysql-lib<br /> --without-mysql-lib=${mysql-dir}/lib<br /> --with-mysqlclientlib<br /> --without-mysqlclientlib<br /> --with-mlib<br /> --without-mlib<br /> --with-mysqlclientlib<br /> --without-mysqlclientlib<br /> --with-zlib<br /> --without-zlib<br /> --with-mysqlclientlib<br /> --without-mysqlclientlib<br /> --with-socketlib<br /> --without-socketlib<br /> --with-mysqlclientlib<br /> --without-mysqlclientlib<br /> --with-nsllib<br /> --without-nsllib<br /> --with-mysqlclientlib<br /> --without-mysqlclientlib<br /><br /><br />Gem files will remain installed in /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/mysql-2.7 for inspection.<br />Results logged to /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/mysql-2.7/gem_make.out</pre>
<p>Well shit. That didn't work. So here's what you need to do...</p>
<pre class="terminal">sudo gem install mysql -- --with-mysql-config=/usr/local/mysql/bin/mysql_config</pre>
<p>which should yield...</p>
<pre class="terminal">Building native extensions. This could take a while...<br />Successfully installed mysql-2.7<br />1 gem installed</pre>
<p>Yay. </p>
2008-11-09T05:51:43Z
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