For me this was caused by using the adapter type of ‘sails-mysql’ as the value when setting up the adapter instead of my custom name I made for it matching the definition later in the adapters.js file.

Logic error in mySQL ORM.
{ [Error: ER_NO_DB_ERROR: No database selected] code: ‘ER_NO_DB_ERROR’, index: 0 }
error: Hook failed to load: orm (Error: ER_NO_DB_ERROR: No database selected)