Connecting Remote mysql2 from rails app on ubuntu platform

Question

i am using two ubuntu machines, one for mysql2 server and another one is for rails with mysql2 client , i am in need of connecting mysql2 server from rails app which is in another machine. i used the configuration in database.yml :

default: &default

  adapter: mysql2

  encoding: utf8

  pool: 5

  username: root

  password: dani123*

  host: 192.168.1.185

  port: 3306

  socket: /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock

but while i run rake db:create system throws the following error . kindly help me

Couldn't create database for {"adapter"=>"mysql2", "encoding"=>"utf8", "pool"=>5, "username"=>"root", "password"=>"dani123*", "host"=>"192.168.1.185", "port"=>3306, "socket"=>"/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock", "database"=>"remotedb_development"}, {:charset=>"utf8", :collation=>"utf8_unicode_ci"}
(If you set the charset manually, make sure you have a matching collation)
Couldn't create database for {"adapter"=>"mysql2", "encoding"=>"utf8", "pool"=>5, "username"=>"root", "password"=>"dani123*", "host"=>"192.168.1.185", "port"=>3306, "socket"=>"/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock", "database"=>"remotedb_test"}, {:charset=>"utf8", :collation=>"utf8_unicode_ci"}
(If you set the charset manually, make sure you have a matching collation)

Answer 1

Your database.yml seem to be missing the database attribute. When you specify the database there, try with hostname:port/db