Ruby on Rails, continued

After showing that yes, RoR was up and running, I then tried to follow along a screencast I'd found that took under 10 minutes to have a commentable blog. It failed almost immediately so I set out to find out why.

First off, I learned MySQL and have always used MySQL as my database since learning it. Its opensource, as are others, but I learned it and it makes sense. I've not encountered anything yet that I couldn't use what I already know about MySQL and not learn a new Database. This is called being lazy. Becaues of this, I wanted my RoR apps to use MySQL. To do this, when you create the app you add the -d mysql option.

rails -d mysql myblog

The first time I did this, I started up the application and it crashed. I went back to the first thing I did and found it crashed too. The error log said to install the mysql gem with:

#gem install mysql

This did not work. I found out I didn't have gcc installed, which the gem program needs to install mysql.

#pkg install SUNWgcc

The install still didn't work. I ended up having to add some options.

#gem install mysql -- --with-mysql-dir=/usr/mysql/5.1

And then it all worked.