From: Ben Bleything <ben@...>
Date: 2007-07-25T06:20:54+09:00
Subject: Re: ActiveRecord Problem

On Wed, Jul 25, 2007, Ari Brown wrote:
> On Jul 24, 2007, at 4:34 PM, Travis D Warlick Jr wrote:
> >It's saying that it can't find the MySQL socket.  Check your  
> >connection
> >configuratiosn for ActiveRecord. See the api for
> >ActiveRecord::Base.establish_connection
> 
> Thanks. Do you know why Mac OS X doesn't have /tmp/mysql.sock?

The socket location is configurable, and I think by default it puts it
somewhere in /var.  If you installed via DP or Fink, it's probably
somewhere else in /opt/local.  Do a locate for mysql.sock and you might
find it, otherwise go have a peek at your mysql config.

Ben