Setting up a new Rails stack in Ubuntu, including Sphinx.
When I run rake ts:conf, I get "Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/run/mysqld/mysql.sock' (2)"
This socket file does exist.
Why this is on serverfault: I'm pretty sure this is one of those edge questions that could reasonably go on SF or SO, and I'm wondering if I somehow messed up the sphinx install by relying on the default configuration.