Noob on Mac OS w/ MySQL Problem

Rails
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Hello everyone!

I’m very much a noob (to Ruby, Rails, and even the Terminal) so bear
with me. I got the following error message while trying to following a
simple blog creation tutorial. Everything was going fine until I typed
in…

rake db:create

which brought the error message:

coconut:myblog username$ rake db:create
(in /Users/username/Desktop/ruby_on_rails/myblog)
!!! The bundled mysql.rb driver has been removed from Rails 2.2. Please
install the mysql gem and try again: gem install mysql.
rake aborted!
no such file to load – mysql

I have looked online and read that I am not the only one hitting this
error message, however I do not understand the directions on various
message boards and was hoping someone here could help – perhaps with
detailed directions (assume I know very little about how to use the
terminal, which is true)…

What I have read is that there is something wrong with the latest
version of ____? which doesn’t have the right MySQL. There is some dll
file to download and put somewhere but I think that’s not for Mac OS
users so I’m completely lost. Any help on what to do and how to do it
would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks!

2

Are you able to run the MySQL monitor?

If not then…

install MySQL on your system.

On 28 February 2010 15:15, Adena D. [email protected] wrote:

which brought the error message:
I have looked online and read that I am not the only one hitting this

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Dear All,

I’m having difficulites after installing my rails.
The installation is a success, i installed several mandatory gems,

After creating 1 controller and 1 view (.rhtml), the browser gives:
“We’re sorry, but something went wrong. We’ve been notified about this
issue and we’ll take a look at it shortly.”
everytime i browse to the page. But the localhost:3000 page looks ok,
except when I clicked on “About your application’s environment” link. It
gives the same error.

I google around and found out that i must install the database first. I
have installed MySQL previousely, and it active as a service, and I also
have XAMPP running. So I browse around for mysql gem, and install all of
its dependencies.
So far here’s what i have installed, 14 gems:
actionmailer, actionpack, activerecord, activeresource, activesupport,
gemcutter, hoe, json_pure, rack, rails, rake, rake-compiler, rubyforge,
rubygems.
I also modified the database.yml to this
adapter: mysql
database: testrb_test
username: root
password: root
host: localhost

All the same setting for development, test, and production setting.
But when i tries to install mysql.gem (gem install mysql), it always
failed:
"ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.
extconf.rb failed
Could not create makefile, probably lack of necessary libraries and/or
headers

Where did i go wrong?

FYI, i’m running on winxp, with mysql 5.

Thanks!

Regards,

Arga

From: Charles A. Lopez [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Sent: Monday, March 1, 2010 4:22:16
Subject: Re: [Rails] Noob on Mac OS w/ MySQL Problem…

Are you able to run the MySQL monitor?

If not then…
install MySQL on your system.

On 28 February 2010 15:15, Adena D. [email protected] wrote:

error message, however I do not understand the directions on various
Thanks!

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