# Updaing MySQL in Instant Rails

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/updaing-mysql-in-instant-rails/69401>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [September 20, 2006, 8:31pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/updaing-mysql-in-instant-rails/69401 "2006-09-20T20:31:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![rbogda](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/65b543/32.png) [@rbogda](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/rbogda)\
**Post date:** [September 20, 2006, 8:31pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/updaing-mysql-in-instant-rails/69401/1 "2006-09-20T20:31:32Z")

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Hi,

I have installed Instant Rails and wish to upgrade MySQL to 5.0 - 5.1.

If I do a standard install of the newer version of MySQL will this work?

TIA  
Roger Bogda

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**Author:** ![rbogda](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/65b543/32.png) [@rbogda](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/rbogda)\
**Post date:** [September 21, 2006, 5:28pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/updaing-mysql-in-instant-rails/69401/2 "2006-09-21T17:28:21Z")

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On 9/20/06, Rbogda [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I have installed Instant Rails and wish to upgrade MySQL to 5.0 - 5.1.
> 
> If I do a standard install of the newer version of MySQL will this work?
> 
> TIA  
> Roger Bogda

No, it won’t work.

But you can use the Instant Rails preferences to tell IR not to startup  
its  
copy of MySQL, and you can then install MySQL 5 elsewhere. Since that  
will  
be the only copy of MySQL running, your Rails apps will use it.

Curt

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**Author:** ![rbogda](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/65b543/32.png) [@rbogda](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/rbogda)\
**Post date:** [September 30, 2006, 2:48pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/updaing-mysql-in-instant-rails/69401/3 "2006-09-30T14:48:18Z")

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Rbogda wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I have installed Instant Rails and wish to upgrade MySQL to 5.0 - 5.1.
> 
> If I do a standard install of the newer version of MySQL will this work?
> 
> TIA  
> Roger Bogda

Umm. Why bother in the first place? Rails / ActiveRecord probably  
doesn’t any features that weren’t present in the MySQL 3.x line. (And  
I’d go out on a limb and say most MySQL users don’t either…)

If it ain’t broke…

David V.

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**Author:** ![rbogda](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/65b543/32.png) [@rbogda](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/rbogda)\
**Post date:** [September 30, 2006, 4:16pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/updaing-mysql-in-instant-rails/69401/4 "2006-09-30T16:16:26Z")

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On 9/30/06, David V. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

> > TIA  
> > Roger Bogda

Not sure it covers exactly what you intend to do but here is what I  
did to use existing installations:  
[mindstorms: InstantRails using existing installations (tips and tricks)](http://themindstorms.blogspot.com/2006/06/instantrails-using-existing.html).

## ./alex

.w( the\_mindstorm )p.