# Daily rails application error **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [November 28, 2006, 4:00pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/daily-rails-application-error/77513 "2006-11-28T16:00:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![spacechurro](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/d2c977/32.png) [@spacechurro](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/spacechurro)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2006, 4:00pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/daily-rails-application-error/77513/1 "2006-11-28T16:00:56Z")
hi, all… each day, as far as i can tell, i run into this problem the first thing in the morning… when i got to my site, i get a rails application error… i check my logs, and i get this: Errno::ENOENT (No such file or directory - /var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock): /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.14.4/lib/active\_record/vendor/mysql.rb:104:in `initialize’ the weird thing is… the act of checking my logs makes my site suddenly working… my database.yml looks like this… production: adapter: mysql database: xxx username: xxx password: xxx host: localhost socket: /var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock anyone have any ideas? thanks! ---
**Author:** ![spacechurro](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/d2c977/32.png) [@spacechurro](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/spacechurro)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2006, 6:24pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/daily-rails-application-error/77513/2 "2006-11-28T18:24:09Z")
If you check the mongrel mailing lists then you should see some posts similar to this. Basically if the MySQL connection timeout value is smaller than the “check timeout” value in rails then the DB server closes the connection and ActiveREcord doesn’t check before using the stale connection. Setting the timeout to be smaller in rails than the DB should fix it. (How you do that I can’t remember). RJ ---
**Author:** ![spacechurro](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/d2c977/32.png) [@spacechurro](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/spacechurro)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2006, 7:29pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/daily-rails-application-error/77513/3 "2006-11-28T19:29:09Z")
RJ wrote: > If you check the mongrel mailing lists then you should see some posts > similar to this. Basically if the MySQL connection timeout value is got it… i will go over there and check it out… thanks!