crunchlife: rake aborted! No such file or directory - /tmp/mysql.sock

rake aborted! No such file or directory - /tmp/mysql.sock

Ryan Baxter — Sat, 06 Oct 2007 13:40:00 -0700

If you’re running into the above error message when trying to perform a Rails migration on Debian or Ubuntu then you might try adding the following line to your database.yml file:

socket: /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock

My database.yml file looks sorta like this:

development:
  database: crunchlife_development
  adapter: mysql
  host: localhost
  username: mysql_user
  password: @!#?@!
  socket: /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock 

test:
  database: crunchlife_test
  adapter: mysql
  host: mysql.ryanbaxter.net
  username: mysql_user
  password: @!#?@!
  socket: /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock

production:
  database: crunchlife_production
  adapter: mysql
  host: mysql.ryanbaxter.net
  username: mysql_user
  password: @!#?@!

Good luck and happy migrations!

"rake aborted! No such file or directory - /tmp/mysql.sock" by jedzej

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 16:32:12 -0800

thanks a lot, you're good jedi;]

"rake aborted! No such file or directory - /tmp/mysql.sock" by rolo

Mon, 27 Oct 2008 09:12:46 -0700

many thanx from me also :-)

"rake aborted! No such file or directory - /tmp/mysql.sock" by Mark

Wed, 17 Sep 2008 08:30:40 -0700

Woo hoo! Getting there now...

"rake aborted! No such file or directory - /tmp/mysql.sock" by namkhanh

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 00:11:47 -0700

I used Ubuntu 8.0.4. I sort same upper but It display message "No such file or directory - /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock". please help me.

"rake aborted! No such file or directory - /tmp/mysql.sock" by Ryan Baxter

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 11:49:00 -0700

Tyler - If you're developing and testing on the same server then it may be a teeny bit DRYer. I'm not so it's a irrelevant whether I create two symlinks or two config entries. Besides, I tend to forget symlinks between servers. If both entries are in your database.yml then you'll be less likely to forget a symlink migrating from dev to test.

Jannie - Welkom!

"rake aborted! No such file or directory - /tmp/mysql.sock" by jannie

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 04:14:44 -0700

Dankie!!

"rake aborted! No such file or directory - /tmp/mysql.sock" by Tyler

Sat, 28 Jun 2008 09:47:25 -0700

You can also just symlink /tmp/mysql.sock to /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock
sudo ln -s /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock /tmp/mysql.sock
I think that's a little DRYer solution to modifying each entry in your db.yml

"rake aborted! No such file or directory - /tmp/mysql.sock" by Scott O

Fri, 20 Jun 2008 16:04:11 -0700

Still helping people like me, Ryan. Thanks.

"rake aborted! No such file or directory - /tmp/mysql.sock" by Ryan Baxter

Tue, 01 Apr 2008 05:22:40 -0700

Great! I always like hearing when something I post helps someone out.

"rake aborted! No such file or directory - /tmp/mysql.sock" by Paul Fisher

Mon, 31 Mar 2008 23:12:21 -0700

This is fantastic. You saved me from a bunch of headaches. Thanks!

"rake aborted! No such file or directory - /tmp/mysql.sock" by Matthias (mw@zweiloewen.de)

Sun, 09 Dec 2007 04:37:59 -0800

Yipiiiieeeeee, great! THX & greets from germany!

"rake aborted! No such file or directory - /tmp/mysql.sock" by andy

Sun, 28 Oct 2007 22:24:00 -0700

Thanks - it helped me as well...

"rake aborted! No such file or directory - /tmp/mysql.sock" by Ryan Baxter

Mon, 15 Oct 2007 06:15:55 -0700

Huzzah! My blog helped somebody. :P

"rake aborted! No such file or directory - /tmp/mysql.sock" by George

Mon, 15 Oct 2007 05:09:17 -0700

Thanks.. was looking for this fix. It works a treat on ubuntu 7.04.