Install RMagick and MySQL with SnowLeopard

This post is mostly for myself, but the easiest way to install RMagick is  to download the script from:

http://onrails.org/articles/2009/09/04/rmagick-from-source-on-snow-leopard

and to execute it by entering into terminal

sudo sh rmagick-build.sh

If you get errors related to “jpeg” or “jpg” then make sure you don’t have the macports library installed:

sudo port uninstall jpeg

Then run this install script for only installing image magick and all of its dependencies:

http://github.com/masterkain/ImageMagick-sl

After that install RMagick, and you should be good to go

sudo gem install rmagick

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http://hivelogic.com/articles/compiling-mysql-on-snow-leopard/

Note: some of the version numbers don’t line up, but that’s an easy fix…just means you can’t copy and paste. Then you’ll probably want mysql admin:

MYSql Admin Download

then to get mysql admin to work with OS-X, we need to make sure mysql is running and to set the default configurations  in a new terminal window type:

mysqladmin -u root password "mypassword"

Where “mypassword” needs to be replaced with your actual password. Once done you can launch mysqladmin from your application directory and connect to it using these settings:

Servername: localhost

Username: root

Password: mypassword

Now you can then create new tables by going to “catalogs” and selecting the “+” button under schemata. Type in the name of your database and you’re good to go!

You can change your password in terminal any time by typing:

mysqladmin -u root -p'mypassword' password "mynewpassword"

Note: there is no space between the -p and ‘mypassword‘