How to connect to mysqld in windows from rails

Here i am trying to connect to mysql socket from rails in windows machine. but i am not sure that this is the right way to connect to mysql socket.

development:
  adapter: mysql2
  encoding: utf8
  database: walden
  pool: 5
  username: walden
  password: w@1d3n
  socket: /XAMPP/xamppfiles/var/mysql/mysql.sock

How can i connect to it.

via Chebli Mohamed