Subscribe (RSS)Rails Quick Tip: Bring Back MySQL to database.yml
In Rails 2.0, when you generate a new app, Rails defaults to SQLite3 as the default database adapter in database.yml. If you'd rather it generate database.yml for MySQL, you can use the following command to generate your app:
rails -d mysql myapp
Courtesy: Rails 2.0.2: Some new defaults and a few fixes
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