Downgrading to MySQL 55

https://gist.github.com/benlinton/d24471729ed6c2ace731

Kill Existing MySQL process

• ps aux | grep mysql Validate that your current mysql process is running.
• mysql --version to confirm that you’re not running 5.5
• brew services stop mysql
• ps aux | grep mysql Validate that your current mysql process is NOT running. kill -9 some processes if need be.
• Wait 10 seconds
• ps aux | grep mysql Make sure that fucker isn’t running again.

brew uninstall mysql

• Might need to unlink some stuff? I don’t know.

Install mysql 5.5

• Open a new terminal session.
• ps aux | grep mysql Seriously.
• brew search mysql
• brew install mysql@5.5
• brew info mysql@5.5
• start that fucker up Decide how you want to run it. I’ve decided not to let databases just run in the background on this machine so I use the manual command, but I’m in the minority.
• ps aux | grep mysql Validate that the correct version is running.

Rebundle!

• Open a new terminal session
• You’ll need to force the mysql gem to reinstall based on the libs provided by 5.5. I cannot remember a reliable way to force this right now.