Rails: Production Rails console won't start

Everything works fine on my OS X development laptop. Deploy the app to production and it runs and displays data as expected. However, when I try to run the Rails console on the production server I get an error... ``` $ rails console -e production /opt/deployed_rails_apps/con_app_rails_3/shared/bundle/ruby/1.9.1/gems/mysql2-0.3.11/lib/mysql2/client.rb:44: in `connect': Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/tmp/mysql.sock' (2) (Mysql2::Error) from /opt/deployed_rails_apps/con_app_rails_3/shared/bundle/ruby/1.9.1/gems/mysql2-0.3.11/lib/mysql2/client.rb:44:in `initialize' from /opt/deployed_rails_apps/con_app_rails_3/shared/bundle/ruby/1.9.1/gems/activerecord-3.2.2/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/mysql2_adapter.rb:16:in `new' ``` I tried removing `socket: /tmp/mysql.sock` from database.yml -- same result. Although the app runs, I do need to be able to access the console in production as well to perform certain tasks. I am able to connect to the MySQL server using the MySQL command line client. ruby 1.9.3p125 Rails 3.2.2 mysql2 gem 0.3.11 MySQL server: 5.1.61 Production host: Linux 2.6.32-220.4.2.el6.x86_64 database.yml ``` development: adapter: mysql2 encoding: utf8 reconnect: false database: con_app_rails_3_development pool: 5 username: root password: socket: /tmp/mysql.sock test: adapter: mysql2 encoding: utf8 reconnect: false database: con_app_rails_3_test pool: 5 username: root password: socket: /tmp/mysql.sock production: adapter: mysql2 encoding: utf8 reconnect: false host: dbhost database: con_app_rails_3_production pool: 5 username: xxxx password: xxxx socket: /tmp/mysql.sock ```