Mysql 5.5, Snow leopard and rails

I had some issues getting this to work with this error message: LoadError: dlopen(/Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/mysql2-0.2.4/lib/mysql2/mysql2.bundle, 9): Library not loaded: libmysqlclient.16.dylib Referenced from: /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/mysql2-0.2.4/lib/mysql2/mysql2.bundle Reason: image not found – /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/mysql2-0.2.4/lib/mysql2/mysql2.bundle from /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/mysql2-0.2.4/lib/mysql2/mysql2.bundle from /Library/Ruby/Site/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:31:in `require’ from /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/mysql2-0.2.4/lib/mysql2.rb:7 from /Library/Ruby/Site/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:36:in `gem_original_require’ from /Library/Ruby/Site/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:36:in `require’ from (irb):1 After a few (hundred) tries I found that you need to change [...]

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