Class ActiveRecord::ConnectionAdapters::MysqlAdapter
In: lib/active_record/connection_adapters/mysql_adapter.rb
Parent: AbstractAdapter

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.
  • :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.

By default, the MysqlAdapter will consider all columns of type tinyint(1) as boolean. If you wish to disable this emulation (which was the default behavior in versions 0.13.1 and earlier) you can add the following line to your environment.rb file:

  ActiveRecord::ConnectionAdapters::MysqlAdapter.emulate_booleans = false

Methods

Constants

LOST_CONNECTION_ERROR_MESSAGES = [ "Server shutdown in progress", "Broken pipe", "Lost connection to MySQL server during query", "MySQL server has gone away" ]
QUOTED_FALSE = '1', '0'

Public Class methods

Public Instance methods

CONNECTION MANAGEMENT ====================================

Returns the database character set.

Returns the database collation strategy.

Create a new MySQL database with optional :charset and :collation. Charset defaults to utf8.

Example:

  create_database 'charset_test', :charset => 'latin1', :collation => 'latin1_bin'
  create_database 'matt_development'
  create_database 'matt_development', :charset => :big5

QUOTING ==================================================

DATABASE STATEMENTS ======================================

SHOW VARIABLES LIKE ‘name‘

Maps logical Rails types to MySQL-specific data types.

[Validate]