Have you tried the installer from MySQL?

    <http://www.mysql.com/downloads/mirror.php?id=402874>

It includes a Prefs Panel for starting and stopping the server. I've also found 
these to be very helpful developing RoR/MySQL apps:

    <http://www.sequelpro.com/>
    <http://www.phpmyadmin.net/>

**Leigh

>Hi,
>
>So I'm new to MYSQL and RoR. I am trying to learn ruby on rails, but
>i'm having a problem with MYSQL.
>
>I am using Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard (10.6.7).
>
>To install MYSQL i done:
>
>    brew install mysql
>
>Which installed mysql, but when I do "mysql_install_db" this comes up:


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