Create a new Ruby on Rails application using MySQL instead of SQLite

Question

I want to create my Rails application with MySQL, because I like it so much. How can I do that in the latest version of Rails instead of the default SQLite?

Answer 1

Use following command to create new app for API with mysql database

rails new  --api -d mysql


  adapter: mysql2
  encoding: utf8
  pool: 5
  username: root
  password: 
  socket: /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock