July 15, 2013 – The Rails Drop

How to find Mysql socket path ?

If you are seeking for the mysql socket path to add in Rails database.yml file,
You can read mysql variables by

$ mysqladmin variables

and find the path.

Make sure that you have installed mysql server and mysql client. Else install by

$ sudo apt-get install mysql-server
$ sudo apt-get install mysql-client

After that install the dependency library for mysql

$ sudo apt-get install libmysql-ruby libmysqlclient-dev

You can install the gparted by:

$ sudo apt-get install gparted

run the software as follows:

$ sudo gparted /dev/sda /dev/sdc