Rails development - Can't connect to MySQL server on 'localhost' (10061)

Question

I\'m a Rails developer newbie using MySQL as the database. I can successfully connect to MySQL using the command:

MySQL -u macDaddy -p

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Answer 1

It's because you don't have password set in your database server(mysql), try this:

development:
  adapter: mysql2
  encoding: utf8
  reconnect: false
  database: bookmobile
  pool: 5
  username: macDaddy
  password:
  host: localhost
  socket: mysql
  port: 3306