Going through and installing all the stuff i needed for development, i ran into a problem installing the native mysql bindings for ruby.

[host-192-168-254-149:~] pjdavis% sudo gem install mysql

Bulk updating Gem source index for: http://gems.rubyforge.org/

Building native extensions. This could take a while…

ERROR: Error installing mysql:

ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.

/opt/local/bin/ruby extconf.rb install mysql

checking for mysql_query() in -lmysqlclient… no

checking for main() in -lm… yes

checking for mysql_query() in -lmysqlclient… no

checking for main() in -lz… yes

checking for mysql_query() in -lmysqlclient… no

checking for main() in -lsocket… no

checking for mysql_query() in -lmysqlclient… no

checking for main() in -lnsl… no

checking for mysql_query() in -lmysqlclient… no

*** extconf.rb failed ***

Could not create Makefile due to some reason, probably lack of

necessary libraries and/or headers. Check the mkmf.log file for more

details. You may need configuration options.

Provided configuration options:

–with-opt-dir

–without-opt-dir

–with-opt-include

–without-opt-include=${opt-dir}/include

–with-opt-lib

–without-opt-lib=${opt-dir}/lib

–with-make-prog

–without-make-prog

–srcdir=.

–curdir

–ruby=/opt/local/bin/ruby

–with-mysql-config

–without-mysql-config

–with-mysql-dir

–without-mysql-dir

–with-mysql-include

–without-mysql-include=${mysql-dir}/include

–with-mysql-lib

–without-mysql-lib=${mysql-dir}/lib

–with-mysqlclientlib

–without-mysqlclientlib

–with-mlib

–without-mlib

–with-mysqlclientlib

–without-mysqlclientlib

–with-zlib

–without-zlib

–with-mysqlclientlib

–without-mysqlclientlib

–with-socketlib

–without-socketlib

–with-mysqlclientlib

–without-mysqlclientlib

–with-nsllib

–without-nsllib

–with-mysqlclientlib

–without-mysqlclientlib

Gem files will remain installed in /opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mysql-2.7 for inspection.

Results logged to /opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mysql-2.7/gem_make.out