First, you have to know that developers of ROR (Ruby on Rails) prefer to use SQLite for Rails projects. But MySQL is widely used on the Web so when you want to develop on your local machine before to deploy it, you have to use MySQL too.
Mac users use often MAMP which install Apache and MySQL easily, but it’s to use principally PHP. Here we’ll see how to use MAMP to have a MySQL database for our Ruby on Rails project.
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