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Asked: 2026-06-04T20:19:18+00:00

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After meddling with installing the gem for mysql2 and successfully doing that I type 

which mysql

and it returns

mysql: aliased to nocorrect mysql

I’m not sure what this means.

Then I type in 

 mysql --version

and it outputs

 mysql  Ver 14.14 Distrib 5.5.20, for osx10.7 (i386) using readline 5.1

So I know mysql is installed.

Finally I want to configure a database for my rails app so, from within the correct directory I type:

 mysql -u root -p

It asks me for a password and, since there is none, I leave it blank. It outputs this:

 ERROR 2002 (HY000): Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/tmp/mysql.sock' (2)

I’ve been reading around for a solution but I don’t understand any of them. Like finding a file called my.cnf or a folder called etc within the rails framework files…

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  1. Editorial Team

    Here is what finally allowed me to create a freaking database in my rails apps through terminal after dealing this error.

    I downloaded mysql’s .dmg 64 bit version from here:

    http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/mysql/

    and then I followed the instructions in the README file. That was the most important part.

    Thanks for the help everyone.

    EDIT:

    This didn’t answer the question entirely for me since mysql stopped working.

    After installing .dmg version I had to update the bash_profile file.

    Here is where the instructions are:

    Should I reinstall Mysql?

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