Use MariaDB instead of MySQL in my Rails project

Question

How can I use MariaDB instead of MySQL in my Rails project?

When I try to install mysql2 gem it returns error,because mysqlclient was not found.

Here some soluti

Answer 1

For recent ubuntu 15.04 vivid and Debian 8.0 Jessie:

No need to install from a ppa (mariadb-server is included), but you have to install libmariadb-client-lgpl-dev and libmariadb-client-lgpl-dev-compat and configure the gem to use mariadb_config:

apt-get install mariadb-server libmariadb-client-lgpl-dev libmariadb-client-lgpl-dev-compat

gem install mysql2 -- --with-mysql-config=/usr/bin/mariadb_config

# or for bundler
bundle config build.mysql2 --with-mysql-config=/usr/bin/mariadb_config
bundle install