I'm a newbie trying to get started. Running os 10.5. Installed rails 2.0, i think, but i'm getting a weird error message when i click "about your environment"
Here it is. Any help would be great
Errno::ENOENT in Rails/infoController#properties
No such file or directory - /tmp/mysql.sock RAILS_ROOT: /Users/mikemckenna/Desktop/corp/newapp Application Trace | Framework Trace | Full Trace Request
Parameters: None Show session dump Response
Headers: {"cookie"=>, "Cache-Control"=>"no-cache"}
So is MySQL 1) installed, 2) running, and 3) using that socket? 
1) yes 2) yes 3) no idea--how can i check that?
1) yes 2) yes 3) no idea--how can i check that?
If you're sure mysqld is running and it's *not* using that socket, connect using your mysql client and enter
show variables like '%sock%';
That should give you something like:
Bummer--- it _is_ showing it as /tmp/mysql.sock...
Can you actually verify that /tmp/mysql.sock exists on your computer? Something tells me it doesn't. You should try to locate which socket is being used. On my computer (I installed mysql through macports), it is in an entirely different area.