This is a library that starts up (and stops, and cleans up after itself) a mysqld process on the local machine, for usage in integration tests.

TODO when released to Maven Central

Create a new instance of EmbeddedMySql. Typically you'll want to make this a singleton, like so:

object MySql extends EmbeddedMySql()

To connect to the DB (for instance, for creating fixtures), call MySql.dataSource, which connects to the initial DB name, or MySql.dataSourceFor(dbName) which connects to the specified DB.

• Not tested on Windows machines and would probably not work properly.

• Yoav Abrahami for initially coming up with the idea back in 2011
• Groupon for demonstrating it's possible to gracefully stop the mysql daemon

Migration integration