The settings proposed for my.cnf on this page appear to be outdated, and cause issues on developer workstations; they make the testRealSchemaFromCheckpoint in org.mifos.framework.persistence.LatestTestAfterCheckpointIntegrationTest fail when the schema is compared for equality, because there is a "COLLATE utf8_unicode_ci" inserted in many places (and thus the schema comparison fails).

You need to configure mysql to use InnoDb as the default storage engine, and utf8 as the default charset.

Linux and Mac OS X

Windows