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Is MariaDB usable with Ruby on Rails?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MariaDB

MariaDB is a community-developed MySQL database branch, the incentive is to keep the community free in accordance with the GNU GPL, unlike any uncertainty in the status of the MySQL license in its current Oracle property. Participants must share their copyright with Monty Program AB.

It is further stated that MariaDB 5.5 is compatible with the binary version of MySQL with the same version and adds several native databases to choose from.

I also read that Fedora 19 is going to remove MySQL packages in favor of MariaDB.

So the question is, is Ruby on Rails 3+ MariaDB compatible? Are there any future plans for integrating MariaDB functions as they begin to deviate from MySQL?

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Red Hat, Debian, Fedora, OpenSuse, Slackware, and even Wikipedia are moving (or moving) to MariaDB. This means that it is stable. Additionally, MariaDB (and Percona Server) seems to fix security issues much faster than Oracle.

Since MariaDB is compatible with MySQL, all APIs are compatible, including the Ruby on Rails API. (Well, MariaDB 10.0 is not fully compatible with MySQL 5.6, but incompatibility is not at the API level!)

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You can use Mariadb with any compatible MySQL client. I use the MySQL.NET connector and it just works.

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