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

As of Rails 5 (currently still in beta), MariaDB is officially supported, which I think should ease the implementation. Although I haven't tried it myself.

You can read about it in the blogpost on the Rails weblog:

http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2016/4/16/this-week-in-rails-mariadb-action-cable-and-more/