How do I install the Rails MySQL adapter?

Question

There\'s not much more to my question than that. gem install mysql doesn\'t work and I haven\'t found anything by Googling.

When I try gem install

Answer 1

It looks like you still need to install MySQL's development libraries. These are required for the gem to build successfully on your system.

[Edit] Seems the RoR Wiki is no longer available. But, Ubuntu has offered their own walkthrough which suggests:

sudo apt-get install mysql-server mysql-client
sudo apt-get install libmysql-ruby libmysqlclient-dev
sudo gem install mysql

See http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/database-support/mysql#installation for more detail.

Example: Ubuntu

sudo apt-get install mysql-server mysql-server-5.0 libmysqlclient15off \
    libmysqlclient15-dev mysql-client-5.0 mysql-common

sudo apt-get install libmysql++-dev

sudo gem install mysql