Problem installing mysql gem on Snow Leopard: uninitialized constant MysqlCompat::MysqlRes

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Published on 2009-12-22T12:46:36Z Indexed on 2010/04/20 7:43 UTC
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Hi All

I've got a problem trying to install the Ruby mysql gem driver.

I recently upgraded to Snow Leopard and did the Hivelogic manual install of MySQL. This all seems to work fine as I can access mysql from the command line and make changes to the database.

My problem is that if I now use

rake db:migrate

I get:

rake aborted!
uninitialized constant MysqlCompat::MysqlRes

(See full trace by running task with --trace)

Now it appears that my mysql gem isn't working correctly as I can access MySQL fine from Python using the Python driver (which I compiled to). I therefore tried to rebuild the gem using the following command from this site: http://techliberty.blogspot.com/, (incidentally I am using a recent Intel MacBook Pro):

  sudo env ARCHFLAGS="-arch x86_64" gem install mysql -- --with-mysql-config=/usr/local/mysql/bin/mysql_config

This compiles although I get No definition for the documentation:

  Building native extensions.  This could take a while...
  Successfully installed mysql-2.8.1
  1 gem installed
  Installing ri documentation for mysql-2.8.1...

  No definition for next_result

  No definition for field_name
  ...

I'm a little stumped as my mysql_config is located in the correct place:

 /usr/local/mysql/bin/mysql_config

And I have removed all other instances of the mysql gem, from my system.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Many thanks.

PS I saw this previous post http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1332207/uninitialized-constant-mysqlcompatmysqlres-using-mms2r-gem but it doesn't seem applicable for my version.

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