Rick Denatale wrote: > > This is for an OSX system, some of the details like socket: might be > different on Windows. > > For a new Rails project you can override the default by using the -d > mysql option on the rails command. The way I got the above > database.yml file was by entering > > $rails -d mysql temp >
> -- > Rick DeNatale > > My blog on Ruby > http://talklikeaduck.denhaven2.com/ Rick, Huge thanks for your post. There's a lot of erroneous information which has been extremely misleading on this issue. For the benefit of others who are having FURTHER problems installing the MySQL gem on their "OSX" systems, we should clarify a few other fine points. OSX is not OSX is not OSX in the case of installing this component. Many other people are finding it seemingly impossible to install the MySQL gem "on OSX." What they're doing is abiding by instructions for earlier versions of OSX, which do not apply to the pre-bundled RoR installation on Leopard. In other words, folks are reading to install this gem with: gem install mysql This won't work in recent versions of OSX such as Mac OS X 10.6.2 (10C540) -- which happens to be my version. You find so many posts indicating this is the way to install (without caveat), that you can easily be trapped into thinking this is supposed to work -- while it doesn't. Your post helped me resolve this. I first thought I had to have the gem installed before building a project; but finally after yet another failed install, I did try to execute your line: rails myApp -d mysql Hmmm. I got a project (somewhat surprisingly). I thought then that maybe the XCode environment didn't bother to check dependencies (which probably still is the case)... and while I was ruminating on that, there were the instructions, staring me in the face! :-) Funny, right in the database.yml file it says, that on Mac OSX *LEOPARD*, the gem install instruction is: "sudo env ARCHFLAGS="-arch i386" gem install mysql -- --with-mysql-config=/usr/local/mysql/bin/mysql_config" Now, that's one line between the quotes (best perhaps to copy it form your .yml file and paste it into your console)... and bingo... the impossible install went perfectly. Note that I DID find this instruction in another post, but that several permutations of the necessary instruction failed because the user-agent hacked the expression. My advice to others who are suffering the same difficulties then installing the mysql gem to LEOPARD is, just (run your "rails myApp -d mysql" command and...) read the comment in the top of the .yml file and copy it into your console. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-t...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
