Ruby on Rails MySQL #08S01Bad handshake - downgrade MySQL?

Question

We recently upgraded from MySQL 5.1.41 to 5.1.61 on our Ubuntu 10.04LTS server. We have an ancient RoR web app that\'s now giving a bad handshake error:

Mysql::E         


        

Answer 1

I also had the same issue. Please add:

config.gem 'mysql', :version => '2.7'

Then run rake gems:install.