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

you first should make sure that MySQL driver is on your system if not run this on your terminal if you are using Ubuntu or any Debian distro

sudo apt-get install mysql-client libmysqlclient-dev

and add this to your Gemfile

gem 'mysql2', '~> 0.3.16'

then run in your root directory of the project

bundle install

after that you can add the mysql config to config/database.yml as the previous answers