MySQL Install: ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension

Question

I\'m trying to get MySQL installed to the latest version due to some installation going wrong somewhere along the line. I run the command gem install mysql and

Answer 1

Installing the mysql gem on OSX

in a terminal.. First do a ‘locate mysql_config’ and then replace the path in the following command with where that file is.

$ sudo gem install mysql -- —–with-mysql-config=/usr/local/mysql/bin/mysql_config
Building native extensions. This could take a while…
Successfully installed mysql-2.7
1 gem installed