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

make sure the port number that you have set while creating MySQL(e.g.: 7777), please add port number with appropriate 'username' and 'password'.

default: &default
  adapter: mysql2
  encoding: utf8
  pool: 5
  username: root
  password: admin
  host: localhost
  port: 7777

in the database.yml in config directory of your app directory.