When using Rails, sunspot and cucumber with a mysql test database, I received the following the MySQL server has gone away error. After some googling a came across the `reconnect` option for database config 1 2 3 4 Using the default profile... Sunspot server is starting... Sunspot server took 2.72 sec. to get up and running. Let's cuke! Mysql::Error: MySQL server has gone away: SHOW TABLES (Ac