Rails: Mysql::Error: Lost connection
Tips & Tricks, ruby/rails | (1)
One of my in development projects was getting triggering a ton of "Mysql::Error: Lost connection" errors recently, and I couldn't figure out the root cause of it.
There are many of different reasons why this error can occur, and in my case, it was a reason that no one else has written about (that I could find), so I figured I'd post up the cause of my problem (and the solution).
This application was on a shared development server with a few other applications. They all used the same mySQL server. One of my other applications had a corruption in a few ...