Installed Ruby on Rails but when I try to run Rails Sever it doesn't load WEBrick?

Question

I installed Ruby on Rails on my mac today along with Gems and MYsql. I\'m trying to follow the lynda.com tutorial and I\'ve run into a brick wall. When I try to run the rail

Answer 1

Forget the warning: Insecure world writable dir error, that's just a warning from Bundler and has nothing to do with the error that is keeping Rails from starting.

That error is due to the Mysql2 gem not loading properly. I had the same problem. Basically you need the mysql source files for the gem to compile properly. I solved it by installing Homebrew, then installing mysql with Homebrew, then running Bundle install again.

Try this:

1. install Homebrew
2. install mysql with hombrew: brew install mysql in a terminal
3. delete the Gemfile.lock file inside your Rails app
4. run 'bundle install` again
5. try starting Rails with this command: bundle exec rails server

I know I'm a little late to this party, but I'm hoping this might help someone else.