# Noob on Mac OS w/ MySQL Problem **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [February 28, 2010, 9:15pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/noob-on-mac-os-w-mysql-problem/184315 "2010-02-28T21:15:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![readysethack](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/e68b1a/32.png) [@readysethack](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/readysethack)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2010, 9:15pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/noob-on-mac-os-w-mysql-problem/184315/1 "2010-02-28T21:15:15Z")
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! ---
**Author:** ![readysethack](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/e68b1a/32.png) [@readysethack](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/readysethack)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2010, 10:23pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/noob-on-mac-os-w-mysql-problem/184315/2 "2010-02-28T22:23:28Z")
Are you able to run the MySQL monitor? If not then… install MySQL on your system. On 28 February 2010 15:15, Adena D. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > which brought the error message: > I have looked online and read that I am not the only one hitting this > > . > For more options, visit this group at > [http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en](http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en). – Charles A. Lopez removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid What’s your vision for your organization? What’s your biggest challenge? Let’s talk. (IBM Partner) ---
**Author:** ![readysethack](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/e68b1a/32.png) [@readysethack](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/readysethack)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2010, 11:24am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/noob-on-mac-os-w-mysql-problem/184315/3 "2010-03-01T11:24:09Z")
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 [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) To: removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid 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. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > > ## error message, however I do not understand the directions on various Thanks! > > > > Posted via [http://www.ruby-forum.com/](http://www.ruby-forum.com/). > > > – > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google G. “Ruby on Rails: Talk” group. > > To post to this group, send email to removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid. > > For more options, visit this group at [http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en](http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en). – Charles A. Lopez removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid What’s your vision for your organization? What’s your biggest challenge? Let’s talk. (IBM Partner) – You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups “Ruby on Rails: Talk” group. To post to this group, send email to removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid. For more options, visit this group at [http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en](http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en). ``` New Email names for you! ``` Get the Email name you’ve always wanted on the new @ymail and @rocketmail. Hurry before someone else does! [http://mail.promotions.yahoo.com/newdomains/aa/](http://mail.promotions.yahoo.com/newdomains/aa/)