Learning ruby on Mac - rake create error

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rake db:create:all works fine here:

/mystest 741 > mysql --version mysql Ver 14.14 Distrib 5.1.31, for apple-darwin9.5.0 (powerpc) using readline 5.1 /mystest 742 > gem list mysql

*** LOCAL GEMS ***

mysql (2.8.1) /mystest 743 > cat config/database.yml # MySQL. Versions 4.1 and 5.0 are recommended.

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i was using sqlite for the past few projects and getting things running smoothly enough recently getting macports, git, installing a git module; geokit turns out geokit has more functionality in mysql / postgress then sqlite, namely distancing functions

i create the project as mysql, scaffold a location model then try to run db:create but i fail on rake db:create command

<code> Couldn't create database for {"reconnect"=>false, "encoding"=>"utf8", "username"=>"***", "adapter"=>"mysql", "database"=>"v3_development_2", "pool"=>5, "password"=>"***", "socket"=>"/tmp/mysql.sock"}, charset: utf8, collation: utf8_general_ci (if you set the charset manually, make sure you have a matching collation) </code>

*** used for username and password

i can login to mysql with the username and password s displays current character set latin1 i can change to utf8, run the command and get same error if i restart mysql, it returns to latin1

is character set really the issue? do i need directory user permissions to create the db from rails?

rails 2.3.3 ruby 1.8.7 mysql 5.1.39

<code> mysql Ver 14.14 Distrib 5.1.39, for apple-darwin9.5.0 (i386) using readline 5.1

Connection id: 438 SSL: Not in use Current pager: stdout Using outfile: '' Using delimiter: ; Server version: 5.1.39 MySQL Community Server (GPL) Protocol version: 10 Connection: Localhost via UNIX socket Client characterset: latin1 Server characterset: latin1 UNIX socket: /tmp/mysql.sock Uptime: 14 min 32 sec </code>

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so is this mysql default charset as latin1 really a problem?

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I am having a similar problem. Did you find a solution?

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I had this same issue with an older project but not with a new project, so I copied the newer database.yml file to the older project, renamed the database in the file, and then things worked. My new entry looks like this:

development:   adapter: mysql   encoding: utf8   reconnect: false   database: dev   pool: 5   username: strike   password: secret

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i still have not found a solution to this problem i have reached out to a few sources for help my most detailed list of issues can be found here:

http://railsforum.com/viewtopic.php?pid=113115

its very frustrating...cannot create a db using mysql on mac

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Using a different version of mysql solved this problem for me:

5.1.41 Mac OS X 10.5 (x86_64) --- doesn't work

5.1.41 Mac OS X 10.5 (x86) -- works

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Using a different version of mysql solved this problem for me:

5.1.41 Mac OS X 10.5 (x86_64) — doesn’t work

5.1.41 Mac OS X 10.5 (x86) – works

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I have successfully installed MySQL 5.1.41 on Snow Leopard using MacPorts 1.8.1 and the file

type is as follows:

/opt/local/bin/mysql5: Mach-O 64-bit executable x86_64

-Conrad