Rails development - Can't connect to MySQL server on 'localhost' (10061)

Question

I\'m a Rails developer newbie using MySQL as the database. I can successfully connect to MySQL using the command:

MySQL -u macDaddy -p

at t

Answer 1

I had a similar error but it was because the port: 3306 was missing in the database.yml. Once I added port: 3306 issue was resolved.