No way to back up all MySQL databases

[dabeeeenster]

Is this possible? Rather than explicitly listing them?

[vitaly]

there is no 'native' way to do it in safe, but if you know little ruby you should remember that 'safe' config file is just a ruby file. so you have all the ruby power. smth like this should work:
echo 'show databases' | mysql -u root.split("\n")[1..-1].each { |dbname| ... }

we'll think about adding a cleaner way of doing it to safe.

[jeffleeismyhero]

The code vitaly contributed seems to have become mangled by Markdown. Here is another attempt:

`echo 'show databases' | mysql -u root`.split("\n")[1..-1].each { |dbname| database :"#{dbname}" }