I ran into a problem while trying to install mysql using homebrew: ~/projects/oerglue (master)$ brew install mysql ==> Downloading http://downloads.mysql.com/archives/mysql-5.5/mysql-5.5.12.tar.gz curl: (7) couldn’t connect to host Error: Failure while executing: /usr/bin/curl -f#LA Homebrew 0.8 (Ruby 1.8.7-174; Mac OS X 10.6.8) http://downloads.mysql.com/archives/mysql-5.5/mysql-5.5.12.tar.gz -o /Users/jbasdf/Library/Caches/Homebrew/mysql-5.5.12.tar.gz Basically, the script couldn’t find the mysql source code. Luckily homebrew uses…
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Setting Up mysql as utf8 for Ruby on Rails using homebrew
It took me far to much time to get this to work right so hopefully this is helpful for someone (probably me at some point in the future). The hashrocket guys have a great writeup on configuring your development environment. I didn’t need some of their bash configuration but it’s a great starting place. Once…