This post assumes that you have already installed rails3(include gem of course)
- sudo apt-get install mysql-server libmysqlclient15-dev
- gem install mysql
- rails new mysqltest -d mysql
- configure your database.yml
adapter: mysql2
encoding: utf8
reconnect: false
pool: 5
username: root
password: xx(this is your mysql root user' s password, configured when mysql was installed)
socket: /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock