MariaDB is a community-developed fork of the MySQL relational database management system intended to remain free under the GNU GPL. It is notable for being led by the original developers of MySQL, who forked it due to concerns over its acquisition by Oracle – Wikipedia

Install MariaDB (on 14.04.4 LTS (Trusty Tahr))

Installation is super easy. Execute the following command in your terminal, one by one in sequence:

$ sudo apt-get install software-properties-common

$ sudo apt-key adv --recv-keys --keyserver 
hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com:80 0xcbcb082a1bb943db

$ sudo add-apt-repository 'deb 
http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/mariadb/repo/10.0/ubuntu trusty main'

$ sudo apt-get update

$ sudo apt-get install mariadb-server

Checkout MariaDB Download page to find instructions to install for different linux distros.

Configure Rails

First you have to install client libraries to connect to MariaDB

$ sudo apt-get install libmariadbd-dev

Now add mysql2 gem to the Gemfile run bundle install.

Next you will have to configure database.yml which will look like

development:
 adapter: mysql2
 encoding: utf8
 pool: 5
 min_messages: warning
 timeout: 5000
 username: root
 password: root
 socket: /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock

The username and password in above configuration is the one that you configure while installing MariaDB.

That’s all. Now restart your rails server and start over!

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