# Rails & mysql

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-mysql/146258>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [August 19, 2008, 3:31pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-mysql/146258 "2008-08-19T15:31:34Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![blueshadow](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/ed655f/32.png) [@blueshadow](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/blueshadow)\
**Post date:** [August 19, 2008, 3:31pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-mysql/146258/1 "2008-08-19T15:31:34Z")

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Hello!  
It’s possible to run mySql whit rails this days?  
Pleas tel me all process on windows xp!

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**Author:** ![blueshadow](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/ed655f/32.png) [@blueshadow](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/blueshadow)\
**Post date:** [August 19, 2008, 3:52pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-mysql/146258/2 "2008-08-19T15:52:15Z")

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It’s one of the databases I run, though on various Linux flavors.  
Just update your database.yml

On Aug 19, 8:31 am, Zoran Jovanovski \<rails-mailing-l…@andreas-

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**Author:** ![blueshadow](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/ed655f/32.png) [@blueshadow](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/blueshadow)\
**Post date:** [August 19, 2008, 3:54pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-mysql/146258/3 "2008-08-19T15:54:36Z")

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Try these:

[http://dev.mysql.com/tech-resources/articles/mysql\_intro.html](http://dev.mysql.com/tech-resources/articles/mysql_intro.html)  
[http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/tutorial.html](http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/tutorial.html)

HTH,  
Richard

On Aug 19, 9:31 am, Zoran Jovanovski \<rails-mailing-l…@andreas-

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**Author:** ![blueshadow](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/ed655f/32.png) [@blueshadow](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/blueshadow)\
**Post date:** [August 19, 2008, 4:09pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-mysql/146258/4 "2008-08-19T16:09:50Z")

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Yep it is, however as of Rails 2.x it is no longer the default  
database used when creating a new project. To use MySQL when creating  
a new project just do this at the command line…

rails -d mysql MyProject

the “-d mysql” part will tell Rails that you want to use MySQL instead  
of the new default, which SQLite3. From there, everything is the same.

–Cory

On Aug 19, 9:31 am, Zoran Jovanovski \<rails-mailing-l…@andreas-

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**Author:** ![blueshadow](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/ed655f/32.png) [@blueshadow](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/blueshadow)\
**Post date:** [August 19, 2008, 5:03pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-mysql/146258/5 "2008-08-19T17:03:50Z")

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Thanks a lot!!!

gem install mysql,  
rails -d mysql MyProject  
and space between password:(and) PASSWORD,

did it the job!  
thanks again,  
Regards!