Hey, folks -
I've got a newbie question that I couldn't find anywhere in the forum archives. Just installed RoR on Mac OSX (Leopard), and wanted to connect it to MySQL instead of SQLite. I downloaded the gem:
sudo gem install mysql -- --with-mysql-dir=/usr/local/mysql
I create my databases in MySQL (rubytryout_development, rubytryout_test, and rubytryout_production), but when I load up Ruby and try to create a class, here's what happens:
class Book < ActiveRecord::Base; end
=> nil
book = Book.new
Mysql::Error: #42000Incorrect database name 'db/rubytryout_development' from /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.15.6/lib/active_record/vendor/mysql.rb:523:in `read' from /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.15.6/lib/active_record/vendor/mysql.rb:153:in `real_connect' from /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.15.6/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/mysql_adapter.rb:389:in `connect' from /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.15.6/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/mysql_adapter.rb:152:in `initialize' from /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.15.6/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/mysql_adapter.rb:82:in `new' from /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.15.6/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/mysql_adapter.rb:82:in `mysql_connection' from /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.15.6/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/abstract/connection_specification.rb:262:in `send' from /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.15.6/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/abstract/connection_specification.rb:262:in `connection_without_query_cache=' from /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.15.6/lib/active_record/query_cache.rb:54:in `connection=' from /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.15.6/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/abstract/connection_specification.rb:230:in `retrieve_connection' from /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.15.6/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/abstract/connection_specification.rb:78:in `connection' from /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.15.6/lib/active_record/base.rb:763:in `columns' from /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.15.6/lib/active_record/base.rb:2063:in `attributes_from_column_definition_without_lock' from /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.15.6/lib/active_record/locking/optimistic.rb:45:in `attributes_from_column_definition' from /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.15.6/lib/active_record/base.rb:1505:in `initialize_without_callbacks' from /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.15.6/lib/active_record/callbacks.rb:225:in `initialize' from (irb):2:in `new'
I can't make sense of this. I've updated the database.yml file to:
development: adapter: mysql encoding: utf8 database: db/rubytryout_development username: root password: socket: /tmp/mysql.sock
test: adapter: mysql encoding: utf8 database: db/rubytryout_test username: root password: socket: /tmp/mysql.sock
production: adapter: mysql encoding: utf8 database: db/rubytryout_production username: root password: socket: /tmp/mysql.sock
I've installed the MySQL gem to the appropriate mysql directory, and I've verified that the databases exist...any ideas what could be going on? Seems like it's not bound correctly, but I can't for the life of me figure it out. What am I missing?
I imagine there's an easy fix, so apologies in advance if this is a 'dumb newbie' question. I'm used to running and querying MySQL, but not installing it or messing around in Unix, so there's a steep learning curve here. Especially now that Ruby comes standard on OSX, but is now bound to SQLite by default.
Thanks for any help you can give. 