I am an RoR newb, so bear with me here. I am on an Intel based Mac running OS X 10.4.11
I have started the 'RoR Essentials' tutorial on lynda.com. I have installed (I believe) all the necessary components:
ruby 1.8.7 (2008-05-31 patchlevel 0) [i686-darwin8.11.1] Rails 2.3.8 gem version 1.3.5 mysql Ver 14.14 Distrib 5.1.47, for apple-darwin8.11.1 (i386) using readline 5.1 WEBrick 1.3.1
Following the tutorial:
Created project 'my_app'
$ rails -d mysql my_app (It is my understanding I need to define MySQL as the database as MySQLite is Rails the default)
Start the server. Access the RoR home page at http://localhost:3000/.
This page displays as expected but...
When I select 'About your application's environment' I get the error
"We're sorry, but something went wrong. We've been notified about this issue and we'll take a look at it shortly."
At this point in the development log I see:
/!\ FAILSAFE /!\ Sun Jun 13 19:22:05 -0400 2010 Status: 500 Internal Server Error Unknown database 'my_app_development'...
I ignore this error and go ahead and create the ('say') controller (say_controller.rb) per the tutorial:
$ script/generate controller Say
and add the 'hello' method
Attempting then to access:
http://localhost:3000/say/hello
generates the same "We're sorry, but something went wrong." error is returned. I am supposed to get a 'Template is missing' error.
Added to the development log now includes:
/!\ FAILSAFE /!\ Sun Jun 13 19:33:38 -0400 2010 Status: 500 Internal Server Error Unknown database 'my_app_development'
I have seen a suggestion to revert to MySQL 5.0 but I cannot find where to download it to even try.
Thank you in advance for your support.