How can you install the mysql2 gem when MySQL was installed with homebrew on OS X Lion? [closed]

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I've been unable to install the mysql2 gem with MySQL installed via homebrew on OS X Lion. I've tried a multitude of flags with the install, and I've still had no luck. Here are all the details.

Software Mac OS X Lion 10.7 (11A2063)

$ uname -a

Darwin Greenwood.local 11.0.1 Darwin Kernel Version 11.0.1: Wed Jun 29 19:53:22 PDT 2011; root:xnu-1699.23.2~1/RELEASE_X86_64 x86_64

$ which gcc | xargs ls -l

lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 12 Aug 18 14:09 /usr/bin/gcc -> llvm-gcc-4.2

$ brew info mysql

mysql 5.5.14

$ which mysql

/usr/local/bin/mysql

$ which mysql_config

/usr/local/bin/mysql_config

$ ls -l /usr/l开发者_如何学Pythonocal/bin/mysql*

$ ls -l /usr/local/lib/libmysql*

See output in this gist: https://gist.github.com/1158628

$ sudo gem install mysql2

See output in this gist: https://gist.github.com/1158612

$ sudo find / -name mysql.h

/usr/local/Cellar/mysql/5.5.14/include/mysql.h

/usr/local/include/mysql.h

$ /usr/local/bin/mysql_config

See output in this gist: https://gist.github.com/1158625

$ sudo env ARCHFLAGS="-arch x86_64" gem install mysql2 -- --with-mysql-config=/usr/local/bin/mysql_config

See output in this gist: https://gist.github.com/1158618

$ sudo env ARCHFLAGS="-arch x86_64" gem install mysql2 -- --with-mysql-dir=/usr/local

$ sudo gem install mysql2 -- --with-mysql-dir=/usr/local --with-mysql-config=/usr/local/bin/mysql_config

See output in this gist: https://gist.github.com/1158645

I also tried this answer: MySQL gem on OSX 10.7 Lion

Thanks for the help!

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I uninstalled and reinstalled MySQL with homebrew, and I was able to install the gem.