I’m following the excellent and descriptive ThinkVitamin Guide to installing Ruby, Rails, and MySQL, and while it’s only a couple months old, there are already a few discrepancies in my install compared to the one shown.
The first problem I ran into was in the “Install MySQL” section. I ran
and all seemed well, but the next bits of code listed did not point to the right places, and I just kept getting “no such file or directory.” This is the tutorial code:
mkdir -p ~/Library/LaunchAgents
cp /usr/local/Cellar/mysql/5.5.15/com.mysql.mysqld.plist ~/Library/LaunchAgents/
launchctl load -w ~/Library/LaunchAgents/com.mysql.mysqld.plist
The problem is that my version of mysql is 5.5.19, so I had to edit that line, and the com.mysql.mysqld.plist was not there. I did find homebrew.mxcl.mysql.plist, and replacing the file name seems to have done the trick. Here’s the full code I used:
The first two lines are verbatim from the tutorial:
mkdir -p ~/Library/LaunchAgents
The next line has been modified for version 5.5.19, and it points to homebrew.mxcl.mysql.plist instead of com.mysql.mysqld.plist:
And the last line again points to homebrew.mxcl.mysql.plist:
After that, the all-important mysql -uroot command was a success!
As noted in the first comment on the ThinkVitamin post, I also ran into an issue with the tutorial’s rvm install, but this line worked: