Sep
29
Easing MySQL pain when using Locomotive and XAMPP
If you are one of those n00bs that are looking to learn Ruby on Rails on a Mac OS X and happen to use the unfortunate combination of Locomotive and a XAMPP-based MySQL server, you will probably be frustrated with the following error,
Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/tmp/mysql.sock' (2)
The secret sauce to solve this problem is to connect to your MySQL using an IP address (to force TCP/IP) rather than the default socket-based connection initiated by using localhost.
Simply change the following line in your Rails config/database.yml from,
host: localhost
to
host: 127.0.0.1
posted by Sarat Pediredla on September 29, 2007 at 6:39 a.m.
