Given a series of legacy issues, mysql was installed on an OS X machine (10.13) via a community server installation - not homebrew.
By accident homebrew was invoked to launch mysql. Now the database is not accessible, although the folder does exist in path
/usr/local/mysql/data/thedb_development
mysql is an alias for mysql-5.6.40-macos10.13-x86_64
homebrew mysql references were subsequently removed and brew cleanup run.
Rails's database.yml defines:
host: 127.0.0.1
socket: /tmp/mysql.sock
How can the system and rails be hooked to the thedb_development and run?
