Mysql::Error #28000Access denied

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Riot wrote:

I'm on MAC OSX and I set up my environment as described here:

http://hivelogic.com/narrative/articles/ruby_rails_lighttpd_mysql_tiger?status=301

This may be too old and I just realized that, but before I attempt Building Ruby, Rails, Subversion, Mongrel, and MySQL on Mac OS X: Dan Benjamin

Okay, I purchased a book "Rails Solutions: Ruby on Rails Made Easy" and I'm following along w/ the tutorial.

I do not understand this thing at all... I'm 100% sure I'm doing everything right, except I still get this error. Perhaps I need to update my setup?

Here's what I do:

1. rails railslist

2. cd railslist

3. ruby script/server

4. Setup my Databases in Cocoa MySQL (localhost, root, password)

5. Update database.yml file w/ password (localhost and root are already set by default)

6. ruby script/generate model Classified

7. Update 001_create_classifieds.rb migration file w/

<code>class CreateClassifieds < ActiveRecord::Migration   def self.up     create_table :classifieds do |t|       t.column :title, :string       t.column :price, :float       t.column :location, :string       t.column :description, :text       t.column :email, :string       t.column :created_at, :timestamp       t.column :updated_at, :timestamp     end   end

  def self.down     drop_table :classifieds   end end</code>

8. rake migrate -- check to see tables have been made in Cocoa (success!)

9. ruby script/generate controller Classified

10. Update classified_controller.rb file w/

<code>class ClassifiedController < ApplicationController   def list     @classifieds = Classified.find(:all)   end

  def show     @classified = Classified.find(params[:id])   end

  def new   end

  def create   end

  def edit   end

  def update   end

  def delete   end

end</code>

11. Point page to <a href="http://localhost:3000/classified/list&quot;&gt;http://localhost:3000/classified/list&lt;/a&gt;

12. ERROR #28000Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: NO)

I don't get it, if rake can setup the tables then the rails must be communicating fine w/ MySQL ??

Shutdown the server. Check your database.yml file and make sure all the environments have a password set and try it again. The "(using password: NO)" implies it's using the default database.yml setup where root has no password rather than the one you configured. rake runs independent of the having a server running which is why it picked up the database.yml changes.

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Riot wrote:

Michael Wang wrote:

Shutdown the server. Check your database.yml file and make sure all the environments have a password set and try it again. The "(using password: NO)" implies it's using the default database.yml setup where root has no password rather than the one you configured. rake runs independent of the having a server running which is why it picked up the database.yml changes.

Michael,

I did as you said and I get past that error now! I failed to mention earlier in the day that I had gotten it to work before, but I started getting this problem after I set a password to my 'root' user -- how can I fix this from now on?

Should I update my setup?

It should be fixed now. There are a few changes you make to your app while the server is running in development mode that aren't picked up until you restart the server. E.g. if you change config/environment.rb you need to restart the server for the changes to be seen.