Installing mysql2 gem on Mac os x Lion

Question

The other day I updated to Mac OSX Lion. It broke my rails install as I had to re complie mysql. While I have got that working reinstalling the mysql2 gem has become problematic

Answer 1

Don't know if this will help, but lemme try.

To make mysql2 gem working under my OSX Lion, running Ruby 1.8.7:

Install mysql - Download mysql-5.5.14-osx10.6-x86_64

Create an alias inside .bash_profile to mysql e MySQLCOM

• alias mysql="/usr/local/mysql/bin/mysql"
• alias mysqld="sudo /Library/StartupItems/MySQLCOM/MySQLCOM"

Install gem 'mysql2', '0.3.6'

Create this symbolic link:

sudo ln -s /usr/local/mysql/lib/libmysqlclient.18.dylib /usr/lib/libmysqlclient.18.dylib