Correct MySQL configuration for Ruby on Rails Database.yml file

Question

I have this configuration:

development:
  adapter: mysql2
  encoding: utf8
  database: my_db_name
  username: root
  password: my_password
  host: mysql://12         


        

Answer 1

None of these anwers worked for me, I found Werner Bihl's answer that fixed the problem.

Getting "Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock'" error when setting up mysql database for Ruby on Rails app