# Installation problem

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/installation-problem/121212>\
**Category:** Deployment\
**Created:** [November 25, 2007, 12:17pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/installation-problem/121212 "2007-11-25T12:17:51Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![daveh](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/85e7bf/32.png) [@daveh](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/daveh)\
**Post date:** [November 25, 2007, 12:17pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/installation-problem/121212/1 "2007-11-25T12:17:51Z")

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Hi there,  
I am trying to set up my rails environment on my mac (OSX leopard) I  
have installed MySQL and it works fine with CocoaMySQL. I have edited  
the database.yml file to represent my databases. But, when i try and run  
./script/server, i get an error when it tries to connect to the  
database?It seems the problem is in the custom\_require.rb file, on line  
27:  
gem\_original\_require path  
Does anyone have any ideas about whats going wrong?  
Thank You,

Dave

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**Author:** ![daveh](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/85e7bf/32.png) [@daveh](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/daveh)\
**Post date:** [December 29, 2007, 6:12am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/installation-problem/121212/2 "2007-12-29T06:12:04Z")

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Do you have the mysql gem installed? Try “sudo gem install mysql”.

A full posting of the script/server error would provide more  
information.