Yesterday I started a project using Django and I wanted to use MySQL. Since I bought my Mac a month ago, I didn’t get chance to install all Python MySQL egg. Then I noticed that Leopard has some issues with installing Python MySQL egg. I don’t know maybe it was because of changing to Python 2.6. Anyways, here is how I solved my problem after a little googling.

If you’re having trouble to install MySQL gem for rails in your OSX, follow these directions:

OSX has a lot of hidden gems in it. For other operating systems, when you need to find out this kind of gems (if they have :P), you have to wait to become a pro-user. Most of the time, it’s gonna be non-intuitive. However, OS X is nothing like that. Finding these little things are really easy and intuitive.