Installing mysql2 gem for Ruby on Rails with Mac OSX 10.6

Question

I am having a problem installing the mysql2 gem.

This comes up when I do gem install mysql2:

Marks-MacBook-Pro:~ Mark$ gem install mysql         


        

Answer 1

If you used homebrew to install mysql, brew install mysql,this worked for me:

gem install mysql2 -v 'x.x.x' -- --with-mysql-config=/usr/local/Cellar/mysql/y.y.y/bin/mysql_config

x.x.x = version of the mysql2 gem you want to install
y.y.y = the version of mysql you have installed ls /usr/local/Cellar/mysql to find it.

to get the version of mysql

brew info mysql                                                                                                                                                                                                     
mysql: stable 5.7.19 (bottled)
               ...
/usr/local/Cellar/mysql/5.7.19 (322 files, 233MB) *

               ...

then if you want to install with bundle:

bundle config build.mysql --with-mysql-config=/usr/local/Cellar/mysql/y.y.y/bin/mysql_config