use .my.cnf for ruby mysql connection

Question

In a ruby script (not rails) Iam using mysql. Because my mysql are available in a .my.cnf file, I can use mysql on the terminal without password. But that does not work in a ruby script, how can I achieve that?

Answer 1

If you are using mysql2 , you may need to read the .my.conf manually, as show in the doc

Reading a MySQL config file

You may read configuration options from a MySQL configuration file by passing the :default_file and :default_group parameters. For example:

Mysql2::Client.new(:default_file => '/user/.my.cnf', :default_group => 'client')