mysql2 gem fails to compile with MySQL 5.6.12 on OS X with Homebrew

Question

I updated all the packages I installed with Homebrew. MySQL got upgraded to 5.6.12 (from 5.5.27 or so):

$ mysql --version
mysql  Ver 14.14 Distrib 5.6.12, fo         


        

Answer 1

The top answer here is out-of-date... the brewers have fixed mysql:

brew update
brew upgrade mysql
gem install mysql2

This will update mysql to the latest version, which seems to work fine with the mysql2 gem on OSX.