Tag: mysql

  • Can’t connect to mysql server on remote server

    By default mysql does not allow connects to itself from any host besides localhost, for security reasons. When you get an error “Can’t connect to mysql server on [remote server]” when trying to connect to the remote SQL server via the mysql command line tool, log into the server running the mysql server and edit…

  • MySQL ruby gem install problem on Mac OS X Leopard

    For those of you using MySQL database server on Mac OS X Leopard while developing for Ruby or Ruby on Rails, you might have run into an issue with the mysql rubygem installing OK, but not actually loading properly in irb, nor completing unit tests successfully. If you’ve seen errors such as: $ irb >>…