<p>On occasion, my local Rails app loses its connection to MySQL. I get some error that the connection failed, but if I just refresh the page, it works fine. This has never happpened in my STAGE or PROD environments (I deploy to Ubuntu), so it has not been that big a deal.<br>
Does this happen to anybody else?  Is there something I can do to fix it?  Is it MySQL or Ruby?</p>

Look like the best solution to this is to install the platform specific mysql driver.
```
sudo gem install mysql
```