Gwyn Morfey's Rails Notes

This is now my scratchpad for notes that I’ll eventually turn into proper wiki articles. It’s public so that it’ll be useful in the meantime.

On OSX, mysql log files are in the mysql data dir, probably /usr/local/mysql/data . Look for a file ending in .err. You can’t see them in /var/log, or the system log viewer (which is called Console.app, for some reason).