Comments on: Ruby on Rails Mac OS X Intel Binary

By: chao lam

chao lam — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 19:55:01 +0000

Todd: Thank you for this package. I’ve been using this for 2 years now! Is there an easy to upgrade my current installation to ruby 1.8.6?

By: Todd Huss

Todd Huss — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 19:58:39 +0000

Sven, you can download the current version and then just run a “sudo gem update” which will install Rails 1.2.

By: Sven

Sven — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 19:08:46 +0000

Are you still maintaining these great packages. I’m asking as Rails 1.2 is out now.

By: Bob Silva

Bob Silva — Tue, 12 Sep 2006 18:54:17 +0000

A fix for compiling the ruby mysql gem on OS X with mysql 5.0.24+.

http://i.nfectio.us/articles/2006/09/12/running-rails-on-os-x-with-mysql-5-0-24

By: Bob Silva

Bob Silva — Tue, 12 Sep 2006 18:16:53 +0000

This seems to be a problem with the mysql gem and the latest MySQL for OS X. I get the same error and am trying to figure it out, when I do I’ll post back.

By: Ryan M

Ryan M — Sat, 02 Sep 2006 01:05:12 +0000

Todd - this is very useful. Thanks. One thing though … I followed your instructions for installing the mysql driver, but based on the output, I’m not sure if it worked on not. Here’s what happened:

RM-MacBookPro:~ ryan$ sudo gem install mysql — –with-mysql-dir=/usr/local/mysql
Attempting local installation of ‘mysql’
Local gem file not found: mysql*.gem
Attempting remote installation of ‘mysql’
Select which gem to install for your platform (i686-darwin8.5.2)
1. mysql 2.7.1 (mswin32)
2. mysql 2.7 (ruby)
3. mysql 2.6 (ruby)
4. mysql 2.5.1 (ruby)
5. Cancel installation
> 2
Building native extensions. This could take a while…
mysql.c: In function ‘Init_mysql’:
mysql.c:2015: error: ‘ulong’ undeclared (first use in this function)
mysql.c:2015: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
mysql.c:2015: error: for each function it appears in.)
mysql.c:2015: error: parse error before numeric constant
mysql.c:2018: error: parse error before numeric constant
make: *** [mysql.o] Error 1
mysql.c: In function ‘Init_mysql’:
mysql.c:2015: error: ‘ulong’ undeclared (first use in this function)
mysql.c:2015: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
mysql.c:2015: error: for each function it appears in.)
mysql.c:2015: error: parse error before numeric constant
mysql.c:2018: error: parse error before numeric constant
make: *** [mysql.o] Error 1
ruby extconf.rb install mysql — –with-mysql-dir=/usr/local/mysql
checking for mysql_query() in -lmysqlclient… no
checking for main() in -lm… yes
checking for mysql_query() in -lmysqlclient… no
checking for main() in -lz… yes
checking for mysql_query() in -lmysqlclient… yes
checking for mysql_ssl_set()… yes
checking for mysql.h… yes
creating Makefile

make
gcc -fno-common -g -O2 -pipe -fno-common -I. -I/usr/local/ror/lib/ruby/1.8/i686-darwin8.5.2 -I/usr/local/ror/lib/ruby/1.8/i686-darwin8.5.2 -I. -DHAVE_MYSQL_SSL_SET -DHAVE_MYSQL_H -I/usr/local/mysql/include -c mysql.c

make install
gcc -fno-common -g -O2 -pipe -fno-common -I. -I/usr/local/ror/lib/ruby/1.8/i686-darwin8.5.2 -I/usr/local/ror/lib/ruby/1.8/i686-darwin8.5.2 -I. -DHAVE_MYSQL_SSL_SET -DHAVE_MYSQL_H -I/usr/local/mysql/include -c mysql.c
Successfully installed mysql-2.7

Note that the last line said it successfully installed but yet there seems to be compiler error above. Should I be concerned about this?

I’m running mysql v 5.0.24a (universal).

Thanks again.
Ryan

By: Noel Jackson

Noel Jackson — Tue, 29 Aug 2006 23:14:35 +0000

Seems that the URL for the Ruby 1.8.4.tar.gz file is wrong; it should be http://rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/7858/ruby-1.8.4.tar.gz

By: sergio

sergio — Tue, 04 Jul 2006 06:06:30 +0000

Thank you so much for your installer. I tried so many dfferent tutorials and nothing worked but yours worked perfectly.

thanks again

By: zak.thoughts.persist() » Blog Archive » Setting up Intel Mac for Rails development

Fri, 16 Jun 2006 21:31:28 +0000

[...] After googling around for a few hours and trying different RoR packagers, I found a nice, non-intrusive Mac Intel package at Todd Huss’s blog. Unlike Locomotive, which is a PowerPC application that hides the underlying Rails infrastructure, Todd’s package gives you a simple directory structure with Ruby and the basic gems that you can drop anywhere on your filesystem. [...]

By: judy engelsberg

judy engelsberg — Thu, 15 Jun 2006 16:30:58 +0000

Apple support fixed problem. Getting ready right now to enjoy your great installer. Thanks.