Erik A. Hanson's Weblog

I had a hell of a time getting Ruby on Rails to work on Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger).

Here’s what ended up working for me. It’s based on the instructions on Jamie’s Blogomatic.

1. Install the XCode tools from the Tiger DVD.

2. Download and run the Ruby on Rails installer from: http://users.tpg.com.au/aarnold/Ruby%20on%20Rails.zip.

3. Download and run the MySQL installer (I used version 4.1.11): http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/index.html.

4. Start mysql: bash$ sudo /usr/local/mysql/bin/mysqld_safe

5. Put mysql into the background: ctrl-z and then bash$ bg

6. Update gems: bash$ sudo gem update

7. Install the mysql gem from the remote source: bash$ sudo gem install -r mysql -- --with-mysql-dir=/usr/local/mysql

8. Compile and install the MySQL API module from here: http://www.tmtm.org/en/mysql/ruby/.

9. All done!