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One of the things I grew to like about Linux was the /home directory. Any data for a user was always stored there. Furthermore, you could easily have that home directory on a different disc so when you deleted your system, you didn’t lose your user data too.

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Getting these native extensions from Ruby gems to build and install has been a bit of a nightmare. Especially since MySQL, Apache, Ruby, etc were compiled from source using MacPorts (which I heartily recommend).

The answer was as simple as:
sudo gem install mysql -- --with-mysql-config=/path/to/your/mysql/bin/mysql_config