Installing mysql gem with Percona XtraDB

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Mihai Târnovan

Installing mysql gem with Percona XtraDB

Mihai Târnovan

ruby on rails / ruby / freebsd / sysadmin

After installing the mysql gem, we were seeing uninitialized constant MysqlCompat::MysqlRes errors all over the place, although the gem installed fine.

This was on FreeBSD 8.1. Turns out Percona XtraDB binary doesn’t include the mysql client libs, so you need to install those as well. On FreeBSD just do

pkg_add -r mysql51-client

Then reinstall the gem:

env ARCHFLAGS="-arch x86_64" gem i mysql -- --with-mysql-config=/usr/local/percona-xtradb/bin/mysql_config