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

To fix for a manual gem install:

brew install openssl
gem install mysql2 -- --with-opt-dir="$(brew --prefix openssl)"

To fix for all bundle installs:

brew install openssl
bundle config --global build.mysql2 --with-opt-dir="$(brew --prefix openssl)"
bundle install