ActiveRecord::ConnectionAdapters::MysqlAdapter

The MySQL adapter will work with both Ruby/MySQL, which is a Ruby-based MySQL adapter that comes bundled with Active Record, and with the faster C-based MySQL/Ruby adapter (available both as a gem and from www.tmtm.org/en/mysql/ruby/).

Options:

:host - Defaults to “localhost”.
:port - Defaults to 3306.
:socket - Defaults to “/tmp/mysql.sock”.
:username - Defaults to “root”
:password - Defaults to nothing.
:database - The name of the database. No default, must be provided.
:encoding - (Optional) Sets the client encoding by executing “SET NAMES <encoding>” after connection.
:reconnect - Defaults to false (See MySQL documentation: dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/auto-reconnect.html).
:sslca - Necessary to use MySQL with an SSL connection.
:sslkey - Necessary to use MySQL with an SSL connection.
:sslcert - Necessary to use MySQL with an SSL connection.
:sslcapath - Necessary to use MySQL with an SSL connection.
:sslcipher - Necessary to use MySQL with an SSL connection.