error accessing the project - while trying to go through Lynda.com tutorial for rails 4.0

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Hi everyone,

I’m new to rails and new to this group.

I’ve been going through Lynda.com tutorials and I got an error.

I was hoping somebody could help me out :slight_smile:

Here are the steps I’ve taken:

  1. rails new simple_cms -d mysql

  2. cd simple_cms

  3. bundle install

  4. rails s

  5. but when I check the localhost in the browser at http://localhost:3000/

I get the following error message:

Can’t connect to local MySQL server through socket ‘/tmp/mysql.sock’ (2)

Unfortunately, this isn’t covered in the Lynda.com tutorial and I can’t find anything useful on stack overflow, etc.

Your help to fix this problem would be greatly appreciated :slight_smile:

Thanks, Michael

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​Is mysql installed on the machine?​

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1) rails new simple_cms -d mysql

You selected MySQL as your database server, so

Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/tmp/mysql.sock' (2)

that means that you have to

1) have the MySQL server installed on your system 2) have it configured to be accessed via socket '/tmp/mysql.sock' 3) have it running

At least one of those three is apparently not the case :slight_smile:

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Thanks for the help! It is greatly appreciated.

I spoke with the person who was helping me to set up the rails environment.

He said that mysql had already been installed.

So I typed this command into terminal in order to start mysql: mysql.server start