Fix gem install msyql2 error on Mac

So I ran into an error while trying to install the mysql2 gem. It was giving me a “ld: library not found for -lssl” error. To fix this I had to add the following to my paths so that MacOS could build the Mysql2 gem

export LIBRARY_PATH=$LIBRARY_PATH:/usr/local/opt/openssl/lib/
export CPPFLAGS="-I/usr/local/opt/openssl@1.1/include"
export LDFLAGS="-L/usr/local/opt/openssl@1.1/lib"
export PKG_CONFIG_PATH="/usr/local/opt/openssl@1.1/lib/pkgconfig"

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