CakePHP 2.0.0-RC2 Console baking error - php

Question

I originally thought this error had to do with my path setup - I had
separated the core from the app so I could work more easily with git
submodules, so I ignored it. I just did a fresh checkout from the git
repo / a download of the RC2 source / and a cakeinit install of the
2.0 package (also uses git) and all 3 installs have the same issue I
had before.
My code seems to work fine via the browser.
The output of a ./cake bake Model from inside the local copy of the
core in the lib/Cake/Console folder is here
https://gist.github.com/1233884
This totally prevents me from using bake. Baking a project doesn't
work, baking a new database config doesn't work - it also doesn't
matter which of the datasources I try.
Can someone point me in the right direction here? I want to use some
of the bake tools and work on converting some shells for 2.0.
I am using XAMPP (latest version for OS X - I reinstalled it 20
minutes ago as a last ditch attempt)
OSX 10.5.8
The database.php I am working with is here with the passwords removed
but otherwise working
https://gist.github.com/1233891
I have tested it with and without the unix_socket setting and encoding
settings. All works fine from the browser but again not via the cli.

Answer 1

Okay, the error message could have been be a little bit more specific:
Error: Database connection "Mysql" is missing, or could not be created.
DboSource::__construct() is throwing that error here because Mysql::enabled() returns false:
public function enabled() {
return in_array('mysql', PDO::getAvailableDrivers());
}
On Windows, I can reproduce your error by commenting out the following line from my PHP CLI's php.ini file (the one that running php --ini on the command-line returns):
extension=php_pdo_mysql_libmysql.dll
HTH.

Answer 2

I was MAMP on Mac and had the same problem with CakePHP 2.2. I solved the problem by installing the mysql pdo for my mac ports installation. sudo port install php5-mysql

Answer 3

For local testing, I have found that setting the host to the address works. In my config I use the following:
'host' => '127.0.0.1',
This works for Mamp Pro