On Dec 3, 9:32 am, Rick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> So what little genie whispered that magic into your ear?
> Thanks for passing it on though. I don't want to say how long I spent
> puzzling through the mkmf / extconf code trying to figure how to pass
> that sucker in. Is this a general RoR convention or what?
>
This is just how rubygems works. Probably first read it via the
hivelogic install instructions for rails (http://danbenjamin.com/
articles/2007/02/ruby-rails-mongrel-mysql-osx)
Fred
> Rick
>
> On Dec 3, 12:25 am, Frederick Cheung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>
> > On Dec 3, 9:23 am, Rick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > > Well, that didn't seem to go too well. It seems that somewhere in the
> > > mkmf / extconf.rb soup the actual location of the mysql home has
> > > gotten lost. The only way this will work is if mysql is installed in /
> > > usr/local, the default for the distributed precompiled version is to
> > > go in /usr/local/mysql.
> > > so what do you think about that?
>
> > Since day one i've always done
>
> > gem install mysql -- --with-mysql-config=/usr/local/mysql/bin/
> > mysql_config
>
> > Fred
>
> > > Rick
>
> > > On Dec 2, 11:24 pm, Frederick Cheung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > wrote:
>
> > > > On Dec 3, 2:20 am, Rick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > > > > Hey Joshua and Fred,
>
> > > > > I agree with the general statement that installing the mysql gem has
> > > > > gotten harder. In fact, the only way I've been able to do it is by
> > > > > pulling in the mysql-ruby source from tmtm.org, modifying the
> > > > > extconf.rb file, and building my own gemspec.
>
> > > > > I have been able to install versions from 2.7.0 through 2.8 on Mac OS
> > > > > X under Ruby 1.8.7p72, Rails 2.2.2, Gem 1.3.1. I don't have access to
> > > > > a Windows system of any kind however so I don't know how portable my
> > > > > change is.
>
> > > > If you're dealing with the gem that is nothing to do with the rails
> > > > version. The ruby version might have an impact though (I've been
> > > > staying away from 1.8.7).
> > > > Personally with ruby 1.8.6 I've had zero problems. It's a bit of a
> > > > coincidence timing wise but over the past week I've setup/helped setup
> > > > 3 machines for our developers (2 macs, one ubuntu) and they've all
> > > > gone swimmingly
>
> > > > Fred
>
> > > > > Rick
>
> > > > > On Dec 2, 12:37 pm, Joshua Partogi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > > > > > I was talking about the mysql ruby driver is not come bundled and
> > > > > > installing it manually is not easy too.
>
> > > > > > On Dec 3, 12:04 am, Frederick Cheung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > > > > wrote:
>
> > > > > > > On Dec 2, 12:50 pm, "Joshua Partogi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > > > > > > > Hi all,
>
> > > > > > > > I've been searching through the list about configuring MySQL
> > > > > > > > adapter
> > > > > > > > on Rails 2.2, and it seems that this question is asked over and
> > > > > > > > over
> > > > > > > > again without any solution :-D Why did Rails 2.2 made
> > > > > > > > configuring the
> > > > > > > > mysql driver so difficult? Why is it a move backward in Rails
> > > > > > > > 2.2? Why
> > > > > > > > isn't there any documentation on this at all while people keep
> > > > > > > > asking
> > > > > > > > this same question over and over again?
>
> > > > > > > Are you talking about the removal of the pure ruby driver ?
> > > > > > > I haven't moved most of the stuff I do to rails 2.2, but creating
> > > > > > > a
> > > > > > > rails 2.2 app from scratch basically just worked in the same way
> > > > > > > as it
> > > > > > > has ever done. (or are you talking about the change from mysql as
> > > > > > > a
> > > > > > > default to sqlite3 ?)
>
> > > > > > > Fred
>
> > > > > > > > Cheers.
>
> > > > > > > > --
> > > > > > > > Not by might nor by power, but by His Spirit.
>
> > > > > > > > Read my blog:http://joshuajava.wordpress.com/
> > > > > > > > Follow me on twitter:http://twitter.com/jpartogi
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