Failing to bundle install tiny_tds on Mac OS X 10.8 with Homebrew FreeTds

Question

MY QUESTION
What are some surefire steps I can take to 100% get this working? I would need real instructions, not one liner answers or vague conceptual desc

Answer 1

What worked for me was mr.ruh.roh's gem building options above, reproduced here:

gem install tiny_tds -- --with-freetds-include=/usr/local/include   
    --with-freetds-lib=/usr/local/lib
    --with-iconv-include=/usr/local/Cellar/libiconv/1.14/include
    --with-iconv-lib=/usr/local/Cellar/libiconv/1.14/lib

in one line. That gem install installs the gem, but the bundle still failed, even though the gem had been built and installed. Adding those options for bundler, however, worked.

bundle config build.tiny_tds -- --with-freetds-include=/usr/local/include 
  --with-freetds-lib=/usr/local/lib 
  --with-iconv-include=/usr/local/Cellar/libiconv/1.14/include 
  --with-iconv-lib=/usr/local/Cellar/libiconv/1.14/lib

Again, in one line. With that bundler config set, bundle install worked.

Note that I had already run:

brew install freetds
brew install libiconv

This worked for me on Feb 20, 2015 on OS X 10.9.5 with Xcode 6.1.1 installed