On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 7:12 AM, Ian Piper <ianpi...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 2 Mar 2009, at 2:37pm, Robert Walker wrote:
>
> >
> > Ian Piper wrote:
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> I hope someone can inform me on this. I was shocked to find that
> >> since
> >> upgrading to Rails 2.2.2 my Rails projects using MySQL have broken.
> >
> > Can you define "broken?" Are you getting errors? If so what are they?
> > What version of mysql do you have installed? I'm guessing it was
> > working
> > just before you upgraded to Rails 2.2.2, but was there anything else
> > that you upgraded in the process? What version of Rails were you
> > running
> > before you upgraded to Rails 2.2.2? Did you install a new mysql gem
> > for
> > instance do you you have it installed at all?
>
>
> Yes, of course - I should have done that initially but I didn't want
> to clutter the posting. See below.
>
> I suppose what gets me irritated about this is that I had no prior
> knowledge that upgrading Rails was going to disable what is probably
> the most commonly-used database setup for Rails. Presumably there was
> a good reason to remove the bundled MySQL driver, but I don't know
> what it is. I haven't changed anything else on my system (apart from
> Mac OS X updates) since I installed the machine nearly two years ago.
>
> Is there a page somewhere (I looked but couldn't find one) that sets
> out the potentially adverse implications of upgrading to a particular
> version of Rails? Seems like it would be a help.
>
> Anyway, back to the error:
>
> I can create a new Rails project using rails -d mysql myproject with
> no problem, but when I run rake db:create:all I see this error message:
>
> ========= message ========
> !!! The bundled mysql.rb driver has been removed from Rails 2.2.
> Please install the mysql gem and try again: gem install mysql.
> rake aborted!
> no such file to load -- mysql
> ========= message ========
>
> Then when I run sudo gem install mysql I see this:
>
> ========= message ========
> Building native extensions. This could take a while...
> ERROR: Error installing mysql:
> ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.
>
> /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/bin/ruby
> extconf.rb install mysql
>
> Building native extensions. This could take a while...
> ERROR: Error installing mysql:
> ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.
>
> /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/bin/ruby
> extconf.rb install mysql
> checking for mysql_query() in -lmysqlclient... no
> checking for main() in -lm... yes
> checking for mysql_query() in -lmysqlclient... no
> checking for main() in -lz... yes
> checking for mysql_query() in -lmysqlclient... no
> checking for main() in -lsocket... no
> checking for mysql_query() in -lmysqlclient... no
> checking for main() in -lnsl... no
> checking for mysql_query() in -lmysqlclient... no
> *** extconf.rb failed ***
> Could not create Makefile due to some reason, probably lack of
> necessary libraries and/or headers. Check the mkmf.log file for more
> details. You may need configuration options.
>
> Provided configuration options:
> --with-opt-dir
> --without-opt-dir
> --with-opt-include
> --without-opt-include=${opt-dir}/include
> --with-opt-lib
> --without-opt-lib=${opt-dir}/lib
> --with-make-prog
> --without-make-prog
> --srcdir=.
> --curdir
>
> --ruby=/System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/bin/
> ruby
> --with-mysql-config
> --without-mysql-config
> --with-mysql-dir
> --without-mysql-dir
> --with-mysql-include
> --without-mysql-include=${mysql-dir}/include
> --with-mysql-lib
> --without-mysql-lib=${mysql-dir}/lib
> --with-mysqlclientlib
> --without-mysqlclientlib
> --with-mlib
> --without-mlib
> --with-mysqlclientlib
> --without-mysqlclientlib
> --with-zlib
> --without-zlib
> --with-mysqlclientlib
> --without-mysqlclientlib
> --with-socketlib
> --without-socketlib
> --with-mysqlclientlib
> --without-mysqlclientlib
> --with-nsllib
> --without-nsllib
> --with-mysqlclientlib
> --without-mysqlclientlib
>
>
> Gem files will remain installed in /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/
> mysql-2.7 for inspection.
> Results logged to /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/mysql-2.7/gem_make.out
> ========= message ========
>
>
>
> >
> > I had issues with mysql, but it didn't take much Googling to find a
> > fix.
> > So I know for certain that Rails 2.2.2 will work just fine with MySQL,
> > as long as you have everything setup correctly. Chances are that if
> > you're having trouble then others have had it already and posted the
> > fix
> > on their blog.
>
> Well, yes, but like I said, the explanation is not that clear. For
> example, I don't know how to check whether libmysqlclient is
> installed. Or how to swap from 64-bit MySQL to 32-bit MySQL.
>
> >
> > If you really do end up needing to downgrade, then I would assume
> > uninstalling the Rails 2.2.2 gems should do the trick.
> >
> > [sudo] gem uninstall rails --version 2.2.2
> > [sudo] gem uninstall actionmailer --version 2.2.2
> > [sudo] gem uninstall actionpack --version 2.2.2
>
> I may have to try that if I can't fix the current broken state. As an
> alternative, I suppose I could specify an earlier Rails version in my
> environment.rb file.
>
> Thanks,
>
>
> Ian.
> --
>
>
So, where did you install MySQL and what version of it did you
install?
-Conrad
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