Ruby on Rails

On Apr 27, 2013, at 2:31 PM, John Merlino wrote:

> There's a common problem when you run bundle install and it tries to
> install the msql2 gem but fails when mysql itself is not installed on
> the machine. What if you have mysql installed on a different machine
> (because you don't want your web application which is accessible to
> the public and your mysql database on the same machine)? In this case,
> do you still have to install mysql on the web application machine just
> for the sole purpose of making this error go away?

You have to install the MySQL **client** command-line software on your Rails server, so the mysql2 gem will build clean against it. Be sure to add the dev headers, too.

Walter

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