Wow, I figured out how to make it work. In DAL.py I added the unix_socket
arg to the MySQLAdapter:
driver_args.update(dict(db=db,
user=credential_decoder(user),
passwd=credential_decoder(password),
host=host,
port=port,
charset=charset,
unix_socket='/tmp/mysql.sock'))
And if you are on MAMP, the socket is actually located
at /Applications/MAMP/tmp/mysql/mysql.sock so you can either set to that or
put in a symbolic link.
It does not appear that many people shared this problem but perhaps it
merits inclusion? Something like:
db = DAL('mysql://user:password@localhost/test',
mysql_socket='/tmp/mysql.sock')
