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Asked: 2026-06-09T13:55:02+00:00

I’m pretty sure that this has to do with my setup but let me

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I’m pretty sure that this has to do with my setup but let me lay it out first. I have installed XAMPP on my machine for my LAMP projects. I’d also like to do a little Rails development for fun (RubyMine looks pretty sweet). I’ve installed Homebrew and the required gems to get my app running but when I try to connect to mysql via RubyMine I get the following error

Can’t connect to local MySQL server through socket ‘/tmp/mysql.sock’ (2)

Using my bash console I can get to the mysql console well enough, it seems to be working well and my Apache projects are still connecting. I’m under the impressions that the gem i’ve installed or exactly where my Ruby installation is looking is a different MySQL installation? Is this possible? I’ve been beating my head against my keyboard for the last day and a half and I’m not quite sure where to go. Ideally if there is a way I can point my Rails application to the installation of MySQL in my XAMPP folder that would be super cool but I’m a newb and maybe these things aren’t “correct”. Any help is greatly apprecited, if you guys want more info lemme know! Thanks!

Full Error:

/Users/Username/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p194/bin/ruby -e $stdout.sync=true;$stderr.sync=true;load($0=ARGV.shift) /Users/Username/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p194@global/bin/rake db:setup
Can’t connect to local MySQL server through socket ‘/tmp/mysql.sock’ (2)
Couldn’t create database for {“adapter”=>”mysql2”, “encoding”=>”utf8”, “reconnect”=>false, “database”=>”project_development”, “pool”=>5, “username”=>”root”, “password”=>”mypass”, “host”=>”localhost”}, charset: , collation:
Can’t connect to local MySQL server through socket ‘/tmp/mysql.sock’ (2)
Couldn’t create database for {“adapter”=>”mysql2”, “encoding”=>”utf8”, “reconnect”=>false, “database”=>”project_development”, “pool”=>5, “username”=>”root”, “password”=>nil, “host”=>”localhost”}, charset: , collation:
rake aborted!
Can’t connect to local MySQL server through socket ‘/tmp/mysql.sock’ (2)

Tasks: TOP => db:schema:load => environment
(See full trace by running task with –trace)

Process finished with exit code 1

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  1. Editorial Team

    If you run mysql in shell and then run

    mysql> STATUS;

    you will see a line like

    UNIX socket:        /tmp/mysql.sock

    This is the socket location for MySQL. You can specify this in your config/database.yml for the connection you’re using with

    socket: /tmp/mysql.sock

    This tells Rails the socket location to connect to MySQL through.

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