Question

Whenever I try to use rake db:schema:load or rake db:migrate, I get keep getting the following error:

The bundled mysql.rb driver has been removed from Rails 2.2.
Please install the mysql gem and try again: gem install mysql.
rake aborted!
no such file to load — mysql

I already have the mysql gem installed which is version 2.8.1. Am I missing something?

database.yml

development:
  adapter: mysql
  database: db_development
  host: localhost
  username: root
  password: password
  encoding: utf8
  socket: /Applications/rubystack/mysql/tmp/mysql.sock

Answer 1

Try installing mysql2 gem

sudo gem install mysql2

If you are on Rails 3, add

gem 'mysql2'

to your Gemfile & run

bundle install

And change the adapter to mysql2 in your database.yml. I solved many problems with this, might solve yours too.