I was messing around with my Macbook at home and trying to get something working with Rails and MySQL. I kept having issues all over the place getting things to run and the gems were killing me. Strangely it seemed like deja-vu. I scoured the internet for solutions and finally found this link:
The link totally solves my problem in amazing detail! I was floored at how well written it was. Then I looked at the name of the author – it was me, I wrote that post on a forum a month ago when I was having similar problems on my other Macbook.
D'oh!