# Error at rake db:create

**URL:** <https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/error-at-rake-db-create/61454>\
**Category:** rubyonrails-talk\
**Created:** [October 31, 2011, 2:27am UTC](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/error-at-rake-db-create/61454 "2011-10-31T02:27:26Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
**Page:** 1

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![fcofdzm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a9adbd/32.png) [@fcofdzm](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/u/fcofdzm)\
**Post date:** [October 31, 2011, 2:27am UTC](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/error-at-rake-db-create/61454/1 "2011-10-31T02:27:26Z")

</div>

c:\Fedena\fedena2.1\_bundle\_package\>c:\Ruby187\lib\ruby\gems\1.8\bin \rake db:crea te --trace (in c:/Fedena/fedena2.1\_bundle\_package) \*\* Invoke db:create (first\_time) \*\* Invoke db:load\_config (first\_time) \*\* Invoke rails\_env (first\_time) \*\* Execute rails\_env \*\* Execute db:load\_config \*\* Execute db:create Couldn't create database for {"port"=\>3306, "username"=\>"admin", "adapter"=\>"mys ql", "database"=\>"fedena", "host"=\>"127.0.0.1", "password"=\>"admin"}, charset: u tf8, collation: utf8\_unicode\_ci (if you set the charset manually, make sure you have a matching collation)

database.yml has development: &nbsp;&nbsp;host: 127.0.0.1 &nbsp;&nbsp;adapter: mysql &nbsp;&nbsp;database: fedena &nbsp;&nbsp;port: 3306 &nbsp;&nbsp;username: admin &nbsp;&nbsp;password: admin

test: &test &nbsp;&nbsp;host: 127.0.0.1 &nbsp;&nbsp;adapter: mysql &nbsp;&nbsp;database: fedena &nbsp;&nbsp;port: 3306 &nbsp;&nbsp;username: admin &nbsp;&nbsp;password: admin

production: &nbsp;&nbsp;host: 127.0.0.1 &nbsp;&nbsp;adapter: mysql &nbsp;&nbsp;database: fedena &nbsp;&nbsp;port: 3306 &nbsp;&nbsp;username: admin &nbsp;&nbsp;password: admin

cucumber: \<\<: \*test

Using Windows 7, MySQL 5.0, Ruby 1.8.7 - p302

Someone can help? I am new to Ruby and MySQL

Thanks