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Asked: 2026-06-05T11:59:18+00:00

I’m having trouble connecting to a remote mysql db with mysql2 gem. I get

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I’m having trouble connecting to a remote mysql db with mysql2 gem.

I get this error:

Host 'my_ip' is not allowed to connect to this MySQL server

My db.yml says:

remote_development:
  adapter: mysql2
  reconnect: false
  host: host_ip
  encoding: utf8
  database: host_db
  pool: 5
  username: root
  password:

And when I try to connect via my sql or telnet I have no problems at all. I’ve double and triple checked the data con my yml, but can’t get through this. Any idea?

Btw I’m using Rails 3.2.3, Ruby 1.9.3, and tried mysql2 v 0.2.18 and 0.3.11 … pls HELP!

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  1. Editorial Team

    I solved this, pretty simple…

    I just created a new user and password to the db with specific permissions instead of using root 🙂

    Should have tried this from the beginning.
    I think this is the correct approach.

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