hi thre i have just started learning ROR (following video tutorial by
VTC) but on the video they were teaching on MAC, i thought i can
follow along on window with instantrails... it was going fine
i got the instantrails set up and yes i can test apps like mycookbook
127.0.0.1:3000 and like so..
so far so good...
but after that when in the video tutorial the guy started creating a
new database for a new project it created in some Mac program so i was
not able to follow exactly on windows
however, i did went in to Phpmyadmin to create the database for it,
now i do not know .. how to link that database to my app... (in
the .yml file that is) also the database i had created has table names
that do not end with _development (that's i think the convention)
however, in the video tutorial.. after the guy created the database,
all the schema information automatically got into .yml file of the
database.
i have no idea how to link my app with phpmyadmin...
Create the table in phpmyadmin as you suggest, name the database something_development. It is then linked to the rails application by
config\database.yml. You will need something in there like:
where username and password are those configured for mysql in phpmyadmin (in the Priviliges link from the phpmyadmin first page). Unless you have changed it then username root and no password will probably work.