2.4.2 MySQL and PostgreSQL
To be able to run the suite for MySQL and PostgreSQL we need their gems. Install first the servers, their client libraries, and their development files.
On OS X, you can run:
$ brew install mysql
$ brew install postgresql
Follow the instructions given by Homebrew to start these.
In Ubuntu just run:
$ sudo apt-get install mysql-server libmysqlclient15-dev
$ sudo apt-get install postgresql postgresql-client postgresql-contrib libpq-dev
etc....
A script which the user can download and just run, will also be nice
Have you seen "The Easy Way"? http://guides.rubyonrails.org/development_dependencies_install.html#the-easy-way.
It is difficult to say if reorganizing that section and adding a filter would be good, but probably worth giving it a try to be able to compare both versions. You interested in exploring this?
I am not sure about scripts. In particular in Mac OS X this stuff is not standardized: Homebrew, MacPorts, Postgres.app, different Ruby version managers, etc. The assumptions you can make are few. Also, IMO not worth doing a super flexible and smart installer for this simple task. If you go the hard way you probably have already half of the things installed and taking the remaining steps is not going to be a big deal.It is difficult to say if reorganizing that section and adding a filter would be good, but probably worth giving it a try to be able to compare both versions. You interested in exploring this?