Modern web development is maggoty with languages and syntaxes, packages and deployments. Some things are constant amongst various projects, like databases and configuration files.
Today I had to install Redmine on my Dev box in preparation for a project but already have ServerPress also running. This replaced MAMP for local WordPress and php development a month or so ago. Unfortunately when doing my rake several problems came up since I wasn’t using a standalone mySQL installation. Since ServerPress comes with this there’s no need for me to manage this any longer, but without it I couldn’t run Redmine. Or could I?
- Installing the latest mySQL binaries from Homebrew gave me the libraries needed for Redmine to operate
- The location of the mySQL.sock file needed to be changed, so I created a symbolic link from within Terminal to using these commands:
cd /tmp
ln -s /Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/var/mysql/mysql.sock mysql.sock
Re-running my rake succeeded and I am now able to only need one instance of mySQL running but still develop using Redmine and Ruby-On-Rails.
***** UPDATE | 2013-09-23 *****
It seems that doing things this way can sometimes cause the file in the tmp directory to disappear upon restart. To solve for this I created a script that runs at startup to recreate the symbolic link. There may be other means of doing this, even allowing for more than one mySQL database to be in a development environment, but having only database is important enough to me to just make this work.