joey@joey-laptop:~/work $ sudo gem install mysql
Building native extensions.  This could take a while...
ERROR:  Error installing mysql:
    ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.

/usr/bin/ruby1.8 extconf.rb install mysql
checking for mysql_query() in -lmysqlclient... no
checking for main() in -lm... yes
checking for mysql_query() in -lmysqlclient... no
..........


以前每一回安装的时候都会出来上述问题，后来搜索了一下
sudo apt-get install libmysqlclient15-dev
sudo gem install mysql

这样的话就没问题了