If you're trying to install the mysql gem on Ubuntu (and possibly other distros) you need several packages installed prior to installing the gem. I keep forgetting so here they are. Hopefully this will help someone else too.
$ apt-get install mysql-client $ apt-get install libmysqlclient15-dev $ gem install mysql
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