Using MySQL with Grails on Ubuntu

As you see I did dive into [Grails](http://www.grails.org) and trying to have more and more knowledge about it since I am really interested in using it along with or instead of Ruby on Rails for my next two start-ups. Grails needs no configuration, it is just a full stack web framework which you can install and start creating projects. However if you are willing to use [MySQL](http://www.mysql.com) with your Grails project then you need to make some configurations that will not take even two minutes. * Go ahead and do what it says in [here](https://help.ubuntu.com/community/JDBCAndMySQL). * Download [MySQL JDBC Connector](http://dev.mysql.com/get/Downloads/Connector-J/mysql-connector-java-5.1.10.tar.gz/from/http://ftp.itu.edu.tr/Mirror/Mysql/). * Extract the archive. * Move the **mysql-connector-java-5.1.10-bin.jar** file to your **lib** folder. After these steps there is only one configuration left for you to work with MySQL on Grails. Open your **config/DataSource.groovy** file. * Change **driverClassName** to com.mysql.jdbc.Driver. * Change the **url** to jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/databaseName That's all. You are all set. Enjoy Grails! :) **Update: (June 20, 2011)** Instead of copying mysql driver to the `/lib directory` of every project, you can add the downloaded jar to your classpath environment variable. Here is an example: cd ~/devel wget http://ftp.itu.edu.tr/Mirror/Mysql/Downloads/Connector-J/mysql-connector-java-5.1.16.tar.gz tar xf mysql-connector-java-5.1.16.tar.gz echo 'CLASSPATH=$CLASSPATH:/home/mengu/devel/mysql-connector-java-5.1.16/mysql-connector-java-5.1.16-bin.jar' >> ~/.bashrc source ~/.bashrc