Jeremy Durham

If you’re attempting to get Rails running on the Mac, do one of the following:

• Use Locomotive (This is the preferred way)

• Use This great how-to and install it manually. This will require things like the developer tools.

If I was only going to change one thing about this great how-to, it’s that if you try to build the mysql native buildings again mysql 64-bit, it will NOT work. The error will be:

@ /usr/bin/ld: truncated or malformed archive: /usr/local/mysql/lib/libmysqlclient.a (ranlib structures in table of contents extends past the end of the table of contents, canÕt load from it) @

Fix this by running:

• @ ranlib /usr/local/mysql/lib/libmysqlclient.a @

• installing the 32-bit version of mysql and building the bindings with that.

either of these should work.