Ruby on Rails with Apache and MySQL on Mac OS X Snow Leopard

Snow Leopard is a gnarly old beast.

However, I left my Mountain Lion laptop with someone when visiting and needed to use my old backup Mac running Snow Leopard.

Some hints on how to get stuff (MySQL / Rails) working:

http://geryit.com/blog/installing-mysql-with-rails-on-mac-os-x-snow-leopard/

and

http://hivelogic.com/articles/compiling-mysql-on-snow-leopard