activerecord mysql adapter flags

MysqlAdapter patch to allow passing driver flags from config/database.ym

Ruby

= activerecord-mysql-adapter-flags

MysqlAdapter patch to allow passing driver flags from config/database.yml.

== Why

Needed to enable mysql driver compression for a few projects. The default MysqlAdapter shipped with Rails doesn’t allow for
flags. Therefore, this is a simple patch to allow Mysql::CONST’s to be defined in the database.yml file.

== Example

config/database.yml

development:
adapter: mysql
username: dbuser
password: “secert”
host: localhost
database: test
flags: “CLIENT_MULTI_RESULTS, CLIENT_COMPRESS”

Note: the flags get OR’d together before passing onto the connect method. If the flag const doesn’t exist in the Mysql class,
it will be ignored.

== TODO’s

write some specs
test against more versions of ActiveRecord
find cleaner way to implement other than opening the class and overriding custom initializer.

== Note on Patches/Pull Requests

Fork the project.
Make your feature addition or bug fix.
Add tests for it. This is important so I don’t break it in a
future version unintentionally.
Commit, do not mess with rakefile, version, or history.
(if you want to have your own version, that is fine but bump version in a commit by itself I can ignore when I pull)
Send me a pull request. Bonus points for topic branches.