# mysql username isn't sent

**URL:** <https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/mysql-username-isnt-sent/48341>\
**Category:** rubyonrails-talk\
**Created:** [January 4, 2010, 3:37pm UTC](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/mysql-username-isnt-sent/48341 "2010-01-04T15:37:48Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Tass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ee7513/32.png) [@Tass](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/u/Tass)\
**Post date:** [January 4, 2010, 3:37pm UTC](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/mysql-username-isnt-sent/48341/1 "2010-01-04T15:37:48Z")

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database.yml: [http://pastie.org/766054](http://pastie.org/766054)

> > ActiveRecord::Base.connection\_pool.spec

=\> #\<ActiveRecord::Base::ConnectionSpecification:0x7fd5f25aa238 @config= {:password=\>nil, :username=\>"developer", :database=\>"foobar", :adapter=\>"mysql", :encoding=\>"utf8", :host=\>"localhost"}, @adapter\_method="mysql\_connection"\>

error: Access denied for user ''@'localhost' to database 'foobar' (Mysql::Error)

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**Author:** ![Tass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ee7513/32.png) [@Tass](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/u/Tass)\
**Post date:** [January 5, 2010, 4:50pm UTC](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/mysql-username-isnt-sent/48341/2 "2010-01-05T16:50:03Z")

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Looks like the Mysql::Error is a bit confusing - it's actually a authorisation problem on the mysql side 🙂