Thanks for the reply, Mick. I do the have the database connection
params set correctly in config/database.yml. I stumbled across the
following post (http://www.elharo.com/blog/category/software-
development/databases/), and the suggestion was to change the mysql
version from 64-bit to 32-bit (the mysql.com downloads). I did, and
it works as expected now. As the mysql gem is compiled on my
machine, not sure why there would be an issue?