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Using MySQL with Rails 6 and installing MySQL on Mac (macOS Mojave)

Felice Forby on September 26, 2019

I recently had to switch databases from Sqlite to MySQL after already creating a Rails app. I also had to install MySQL on my Mac. This article go...
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Mayra Navarro • • Edited

Thank you!
I had to run:
brew reinstall openssl && brew link openssl --force
bundle config --local build.mysql2 "--with-ldflags=-L/usr/local/opt/openssl/lib --with-cppflags=-I/usr/local/opt/openssl/include"

Just in case someone needs it in the future

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Felice Forby •

Thanks for your extra bit of info! <3

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Sebastian hilton •

thanks so much for the detail post on how to create a project with mysql, how to add to existing and adding so much details. Don't find to many articles like this from the tech community. Definetly adding to my faves.

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Pritesh Jain •

Saved my day!! Specially the installer once.
thanks

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Felice Forby •

Yay! Glad it helped!