Unable to start rails server

I have installed rails and mysql. I have also installed mysql2 gem. I created a rails application by the command
rails new try_cms -d mysql
It was created successfully. But when I try to run the WEBrick server using rails server command I get the following errors.

/Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/mysql2-0.2.6/lib/mysql2/mysql2.bundle: dlopen(/Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/mysql2-0.2.6/lib/mysql2/mysql2.bundle, 9): Library not loaded: libmysqlclient.16.dylib (LoadError)
  Referenced from: /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/mysql2-0.2.6/lib/mysql2/mysql2.bundle
  Reason: image not found - /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/mysql2-0.2.6/lib/mysql2/mysql2.bundle
    from /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/mysql2-0.2.6/lib/mysql2.rb:7
    from /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/bundler-1.0.9/lib/bundler/runtime.rb:68:in `require'
    from /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/bundler-1.0.9/lib/bundler/runtime.rb:68:in `require'
    from /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/bundler-1.0.9/lib/bundler/runtime.rb:66:in `each'
    from /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/bundler-1.0.9/lib/bundler/runtime.rb:66:in `require'
    from /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/bundler-1.0.9/lib/bundler/runtime.rb:55:in `each'
    from /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/bundler-1.0.9/lib/bundler/runtime.rb:55:in `require'
    from /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/bundler-1.0.9/lib/bundler.rb:114:in `require'
    from /Users/dilippednekar/Sites/try_cms/config/application.rb:7
    from /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/railties-3.0.3/lib/rails/commands.rb:28:in `require'
    from /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/railties-3.0.3/lib/rails/commands.rb:28
    from /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/railties-3.0.3/lib/rails/commands.rb:27:in `tap'
    from /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/railties-3.0.3/lib/rails/commands.rb:27
    from script/rails:6:in `require'
    from script/rails:6

Thanks in advance.

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Method 1

Try running this (see similar question here)

sudo install_name_tool -change libmysqlclient.16.dylib /usr/local/mysql/lib/libmysqlclient.16.dylib /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/mysql2-0.2.6/lib/mysql2/mysql2.bundle

Method 2

Just ran into this problem myself. Make sure you update the version numbers.

sudo install_name_tool -change libmysqlclient.18.dylib /usr/local/mysql/lib/libmysqlclient.18.dylib /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/mysql2-0.2.7/lib/mysql2/mysql2.bundle

Method 3

For some reason the mysql2.bundle file was not in my mysql2 gem. I ran

 gem uninstall mysql2

and the gem was uninstalled. Then I immediately ran

sudo gem install mysql2

Then

sudo install_name_tool -change libmysqlclient.16.dylib /usr/local/mysql/lib/libmysqlclient.16.dylib /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/mysql2-0.2.6/lib/mysql2/mysql2.bundle

Finally rails s launched the server!

Method 4

I had similar problems. The solutio that worked for me was found here.

Method 5

If you want something a little less intrusive, just set the DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable in your MySQL’s lib direction.

export DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH=$MYSQL_HOME/lib

Method 6

I was just hit with this using Rails 3.1.0, ruby-1.9.2-p290 and mysql2 0.3.7. My solution was to downgrade to mysql 2.8.1. Everything looks good so far (I wasn’t even able to start the environment).

Method 7

sudo apt-get install libmysqlclient15-dev libmysqlclient15off libmysql-ruby

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