[LRUG] Help with mish-mash rails install

[Ross Lawley]

Hi Tom,

I had a simlar issue the other week heres how I fixed it:

gem install mysql -- --with-mysql-config=/PATH/TO/mysql_config

Seemed simpler than the other route!  And the mysql gem complied a treat.

Ross

Message: 4
> Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2006 09:36:24 +0100
> From: Tom Medhurst <tom at tmedhurst.me.uk>
> Subject: Re: [LRUG] Help with mish-mash rails install
> To: London Ruby Users Group <chat at lrug.org>
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> Hi Guys
> I come to you in a moment of desperation...
>
> ...the caveat is I am a humble c# windows developer with little - no
> experience with programming for mac, (read a book on objective c once
> and ran away!) Although I thought that had changed when I turned to
> ruby.. now I could write programs that ported onto any system.. even
> better with rails, as I could develop web sites on my pc or one of my
> macs, great!
>
> I managed to work out how to install all the prereqs: mysql, ruby-
> mysql-adapter, rails and all dependencies via rubygems and get it
> working.. yay!
>
> However when it comes to upgrading, when there is a new release of
> rails for example; I am in a world of pain! AHHHH! My real underlying
> problem is I have no clue how all these apps are tied together and I
> am missing some fundamental knowledge of how OSX and even UNIX does
> things because I am Bill Gate's bytch. :'-(
>
> So I ran under bash:
>
> sudo bash
> gem update rails --include-dependencies
>
> and it updated everything like a dream.. however when I attempted to
> run any rails app, I got an error complaining that it could not login
> as no password was being sent. (Access denied for user:
> 'root at 127.0.0.1' (Using password: NO))
> So I thought fine; I must need to update the rails-mysql adapter as
> it is no longer sending the connection string correctly; but this is
> starting to sound like the UNIX equivalent of DLL hell!
>
> So I upgraded to version 2.7 (ruby) using the bash command:
>
> gem update mysql
>
> Which failed instantly, I think something important is missing from
> my PATH??
> so I went to the mysql2.7 gem directory and ran:
>
> ruby extconf.rb --with-mysql-config
> make
> ruby test.rb localhost root andmypasswordhere
> make install
>
> unfortunately four of the unit tests failed and now web brick won't
> even boot. I am sorry to clutter a happy newsgroup with stories of
> terror, but I desperately need some guidence, firstly in fixing what
> I currently have, and secondly with an upgrade plan to ensure I don't
> get my self into this mess everytime I upgrade.
>
> Many Thanks
>
> Tom Medhurst
>
>
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