Ruby on Rails and mySQL

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I'm new to RoR so please forgive this trivial question. I'm working through Timothy Fisher's Ruby on Rails Bible, I have the components up and running. I have created the contactlist database and within it the contacts table. I then follow the instructions on page 81:

ruby script/console my_contact = Contact.new

It's supposed to respond with a message describing the attributes of the Contact class, but instead it tells me that it cannot find the contacts_development database. It is there, as shown by the mysql console app. What am I doing wrong? Should I have created the database in some particular directory rather than just leave it to mySQL to figure out where to place it?

Thanks in advance, Arthur

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Can you show us your database.yml and details of the error displayed?

Colin

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How did you create the contacts table? Do you have the mysql gem installed? What is the response when, in your app directory, you type: "script/ about"?