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

I know this has been answered multiple times however, here's what's working for me with: May 20, 2019 OSX Mojave 10.14.4 MySQL Ver 14.14 Distrib 5.7.24, for osx10.14 (x86_64) using EditLine wrapper ruby 2.5.0p0 (2017-12-25 revision 61468) [x86_64-darwin17] Rails 5.2.1

export LIBRARY_PATH=$LIBRARY_PATH:/usr/local/opt/openssl/lib/
gem install mysql2 -- --with-mysql-config=/usr/local/Cellar/mysql\@5.7/5.7.24/bin/mysql_config

change "/usr/local/Cellar/mysql@5.7/5.7.24/bin/mysql_config" to whatever your current valid path is from "/usr/local/Cellar/mysql"

Hope this helps!