Please help: having problem with the scaffold commad, mysql

i just recently purchase agile web dev book about ruby on rails and
going through the whole project. well i am now stuck on creating the
scaffold. I have been messing with settings for awhile now. here is the
error:

koloa@ubuntu:/var/www/depot$ ruby script/generate scaffold Product Admin
exists app/controllers/
exists app/helpers/
exists app/views/admin
exists test/functional/
dependency model
exists app/models/
exists test/unit/
exists test/fixtures/
identical app/models/product.rb
identical test/unit/product_test.rb
identical test/fixtures/products.yml
No such file or directory - /tmp/mysql.sock

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now i have been searching the forums and google but getting even more
confused. what is the difference between mysql.sock and mysqld.sock? is
this file created when mysql starts?

does mysql port number have to be the same that my RoR site is
configured to? example my RoR site is localhost:3000, do I have to go
into the mysql conf file and change the default 3203(or something) to
3000? thank you for the help!!!

On Sun, 2006-02-26 at 09:33 +0100, bbqbaker wrote:

dependency model
now i have been searching the forums and google but getting even more
confused. what is the difference between mysql.sock and mysqld.sock? is
this file created when mysql starts?

does mysql port number have to be the same that my RoR site is
configured to? example my RoR site is localhost:3000, do I have to go
into the mysql conf file and change the default 3203(or something) to
3000? thank you for the help!!!


how to connect to mysql is totally dependent upon your setup.

if on mysql windows…remove the socket and put

port: 3306

and make sure that the port is not blocked by firewall (I presume TCP
but unblock both TCP & UDP just in case)

if mysql on Linux and it is localhost…chances are likely that the
socket is /var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock

if mysql is started on localhost…see if you can connect to it from
command line.

mysql DATABASE_NAME -h localhost -u USER_NAME -p

and you can determine socket location (if available) by doing

ps aux|grep mysql

Craig

hi craig, thanks for the reply.

ok, so mysql needs to have its own port number seprate from what my RoR
site is located on?

Right now, when I type mysql_config --socket, i do get
“/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock”

but i am confused. what is the diffence between mysql.sock vs
mysqld.sock?

i start mysql by typing “sudo mysqld”. Is this correct? I am using
ubuntu.

thanks

Craig W. wrote:

On Sun, 2006-02-26 at 09:33 +0100, bbqbaker wrote:

dependency model
now i have been searching the forums and google but getting even more
confused. what is the difference between mysql.sock and mysqld.sock? is
this file created when mysql starts?

does mysql port number have to be the same that my RoR site is
configured to? example my RoR site is localhost:3000, do I have to go
into the mysql conf file and change the default 3203(or something) to
3000? thank you for the help!!!


how to connect to mysql is totally dependent upon your setup.

if on mysql windows…remove the socket and put

port: 3306

and make sure that the port is not blocked by firewall (I presume TCP
but unblock both TCP & UDP just in case)

if mysql on Linux and it is localhost…chances are likely that the
socket is /var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock

if mysql is started on localhost…see if you can connect to it from
command line.

mysql DATABASE_NAME -h localhost -u USER_NAME -p

and you can determine socket location (if available) by doing

ps aux|grep mysql

Craig

Hello,

I have recently started learning RoR. I think it’s fantastic. I am
absolutely blown away.
OK, this is to prepare you to my idiotic question. Hopefully, I won’t
be stoned.

I am designing a simple application, where users can register, and:

  • Publish a photo album
  • Publish a simple blog with comments
  • Determine their list of friends and foes

The application will obviously have a front end and a backend.
The front end will give people a chance to search, and “find” members
and blogs
The back end will allow people to manage their profiles and add blog
entries.

Now: I like the idea of urls like this:

domain.com/user/merc/blog

Where:

  • “user” is the controller
  • “merc” is the user id
  • “blog” is the action (in this case, show the blog)

The backend could be:

domain.com/backend/merc/blog

Where everything is as above, a part from the fact that “backend” is
the controller.

This does mean that each controller will have quite a few actions.

I guess my question is: how do you decide what a “controller” is and
does? How should I divide the application amongst several controllers?

Well… I hope I didn’t embarrass myself too much.

Thanks a lot and bye!

Merc.

On Sun, 2006-02-26 at 17:33 +0100, bbqbaker wrote:

hi craig, thanks for the reply.

ok, so mysql needs to have its own port number seprate from what my RoR
site is located on?

Right now, when I type mysql_config --socket, i do get
“/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock”


this is what you should use then

but i am confused. what is the diffence between mysql.sock vs
mysqld.sock?


there isn’t a mysqld.sock

i start mysql by typing “sudo mysqld”. Is this correct? I am using
ubuntu.


I doubt it…I’m not a ubuntu user and I would suspect that running…

sudo /etc/init.d/mysqld start

would be the ticket but if you haven’t already set up the initial db’s
on mysql…you probably need to get some help from ubuntu group to get
it going initially.

once mysqld is running…then the reference to the
socket /var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock is all you should need to talk to it
(no ports necessary) You only use port numbers to connect to mysql
server if…

  • mysql server is running on Windows
    or
  • mysql server is running on some machine other than localhost

Craig

hi craig thanks again. so if i am connecting through localhost, it
wouldnt matter if my port numbers are incorrect right?

my computer is also running apache2, should i disable this?

in the book that i have, it only mentions webrick.

i will try what you suggested. thanks,

Craig W. wrote:

On Sun, 2006-02-26 at 17:33 +0100, bbqbaker wrote:

hi craig, thanks for the reply.

ok, so mysql needs to have its own port number seprate from what my RoR
site is located on?

Right now, when I type mysql_config --socket, i do get
“/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock”


this is what you should use then

but i am confused. what is the diffence between mysql.sock vs
mysqld.sock?


there isn’t a mysqld.sock

i start mysql by typing “sudo mysqld”. Is this correct? I am using
ubuntu.


I doubt it…I’m not a ubuntu user and I would suspect that running…

sudo /etc/init.d/mysqld start

would be the ticket but if you haven’t already set up the initial db’s
on mysql…you probably need to get some help from ubuntu group to get
it going initially.

once mysqld is running…then the reference to the
socket /var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock is all you should need to talk to it
(no ports necessary) You only use port numbers to connect to mysql
server if…

  • mysql server is running on Windows
    or
  • mysql server is running on some machine other than localhost

Craig

On Sun, 2006-02-26 at 18:19 +0100, koloa none wrote:

hi craig thanks again. so if i am connecting through localhost, it
wouldnt matter if my port numbers are incorrect right?


localhost - no port numbers should be used in database.yml

my computer is also running apache2, should i disable this?


shouldn’t matter

hi craig,
seems like i am getting closer but now when i type “ruby script/generate
scaffold Product Admin” in the ruby site home directory, i get "access
denied for user 'root@localhost; (using password: NO)

now i checked my database.yml and i put my root and pw there. is there
anywhere else i need to set it?

thanks,

Craig W. wrote:

On Sun, 2006-02-26 at 18:19 +0100, koloa none wrote:

hi craig thanks again. so if i am connecting through localhost, it
wouldnt matter if my port numbers are incorrect right?


localhost - no port numbers should be used in database.yml

my computer is also running apache2, should i disable this?


shouldn’t matter

No - you need to be able to use mysql as root@localhost without a
password as you have configured the database.yml

That’s a mysql problem that you have to solve.

Craig

but when running the ruby command to generate the scaffold, how does
ruby know to use root as the user vs another username that has all
privileges to access the database?

is it because when i created “rails depot”, i used the sudo command and
hence why its root?

Craig W. wrote:

No - you need to be able to use mysql as root@localhost without a
password as you have configured the database.yml

That’s a mysql problem that you have to solve.

Craig

rails uses the path_to_rails_app/config/database.yml data to determine
username:, password:, host:, database_name:, [ port: | socket: ]

MySQL mantains it’s own “users” db for usernames:, passwords:, hosts:

Craig

hi craig, after almost all day i am getting closer. after much
frustration, i reinstalled mysql. still that didnt solve the problem,
but at least now i have a whole new error message. i was able to reset
my root password since it was giving errors. well here is my new error.

/// begin

koloa@ubuntu:/var/www/depot$ ruby script/generate scaffold product Admin
exists app/controllers/
exists app/helpers/
exists app/views/admin
exists test/functional/
dependency model
exists app/models/
exists test/unit/
exists test/fixtures/
identical app/models/product.rb
identical test/unit/product_test.rb
identical test/fixtures/products.yml
error Before updating scaffolding from new DB schema, try
creating a tab le for your model (Product)
/// end

now in the book it has the product table in the depot_development DB.
now in Ruby rails must i signify that befor i type products?

Craig W. wrote:

rails uses the path_to_rails_app/config/database.yml data to determine
username:, password:, host:, database_name:, [ port: | socket: ]

MySQL mantains it’s own “users” db for usernames:, passwords:, hosts:

Craig

in my synaptic package manager i have the following checked:

libdbd-mysql-ruby, libdbd-mysql-ruby1.8,
libdbd-mysql, and libdbd-mysql

and this is what my site has:
Ruby version 1.8.3 (i486-linux)
RubyGems version 0.8.11
Rails version 1.0.0
Active Record version 1.13.2
Action Pack version 1.11.2
Action Web Service version 1.0.0
Action Mailer version 1.1.5
Active Support version 1.2.5
Application root /var/www/depot
Environment development
Database adapter mysql

On Mon, 2006-02-27 at 04:31 +0100, bbqbaker wrote:

after reading the book some more, i noticed in the fine print that this
problem may be due to a bad install of ruby mysql library. if this is
so, what is the latest ruby mysql to get? thanks


says it right at the very top of database.yml file that you have to edit
to connect to your mysql db…

gem install mysql

Craig

after reading the book some more, i noticed in the fine print that this
problem may be due to a bad install of ruby mysql library. if this is
so, what is the latest ruby mysql to get? thanks

bbqbaker wrote:

hi craig, after almost all day i am getting closer. after much
frustration, i reinstalled mysql. still that didnt solve the problem,
but at least now i have a whole new error message. i was able to reset
my root password since it was giving errors. well here is my new error.

/// begin

koloa@ubuntu:/var/www/depot$ ruby script/generate scaffold product Admin
exists app/controllers/
exists app/helpers/
exists app/views/admin
exists test/functional/
dependency model
exists app/models/
exists test/unit/
exists test/fixtures/
identical app/models/product.rb
identical test/unit/product_test.rb
identical test/fixtures/products.yml
error Before updating scaffolding from new DB schema, try
creating a tab le for your model (Product)
/// end

now in the book it has the product table in the depot_development DB.
now in Ruby rails must i signify that befor i type products?

Craig W. wrote:

rails uses the path_to_rails_app/config/database.yml data to determine
username:, password:, host:, database_name:, [ port: | socket: ]

MySQL mantains it’s own “users” db for usernames:, passwords:, hosts:

Craig

im not sure if things are getting worse or better:

koloa@ubuntu:/var/www/depot$ gem install mysql –
–include=/usr/local/lib
Attempting local installation of ‘mysql’
Local gem file not found: mysql*.gem
Attempting remote installation of ‘mysql’
ERROR: While executing gem … (Gem::FilePermissionError)
You don’t have write permissions into the /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8
directory.
koloa@ubuntu:/var/www/depot$ sudo gem install mysql –
–include=/usr/local/lib
Attempting local installation of ‘mysql’
Local gem file not found: mysql*.gem
Attempting remote installation of ‘mysql’
Building native extensions. This could take a while…
*** extconf.rb failed ***
Could not create Makefile due to some reason, probably lack of
necessary libraries and/or headers. Check the mkmf.log file for more
details. You may need configuration options.

Provided configuration options:
–with-opt-dir
–with-opt-include=${opt-dir}/include
–with-opt-lib=${opt-dir}/lib
–with-make-prog=make
–srcdir=.
–curdir=/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mysql-2.7
–ruby=/usr/bin/ruby1.8
–with-mysql-config
–with-mysql-dir=/usr/local
–with-mysql-include=${mysql-dir}/include
–with-mysql-lib=${mysql-dir}/lib
–with-mysqlclientlib=mysqlclient
–with-mlib=m
–with-mysqlclientlib=mysqlclient
–with-zlib=z
–with-mysqlclientlib=mysqlclient
–with-socketlib=socket
–with-mysqlclientlib=mysqlclient
–with-nsllib=nsl
–with-mysqlclientlib=mysqlclient
ERROR: While executing gem … (RuntimeError)
ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.
Gem files will remain installed in /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mysql-2.7
for inspection.
ruby extconf.rb install mysql – --include=/usr/local/lib\nchecking
for mysql_query() in -lmysqlclient… no
checking for main() in -lm… yes
checking for mysql_query() in -lmysqlclient… no
checking for main() in -lz… yes
checking for mysql_query() in -lmysqlclient… no
checking for main() in -lsocket… no
checking for mysql_query() in -lmysqlclient… no
checking for main() in -lnsl… yes
checking for mysql_query() in -lmysqlclient… no

ok, i feel like i am close now. Successfully installed mysql-2.7. BUT i
am still getting the “error Before updating scaffolding from new DB
schema, try creating a table for your model (Product)”
error… =(

koloa@ubuntu:/var/www/depot$ sudo gem install mysql –
–include=/usr/local/lib
Attempting local installation of ‘mysql’
Local gem file not found: mysql*.gem
Attempting remote installation of ‘mysql’
Building native extensions. This could take a while…
Makefile:111: warning: overriding commands for target
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mysql-2.7/lib' Makefile:109: warning: ignoring old commands for target/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mysql-2.7/lib’
mysql.c: In function â??make_field_objâ??:
mysql.c:185: warning: unused variable â??hashâ??
mysql.c: In function â??stmt_executeâ??:
mysql.c:1316: warning: unused variable â??falseâ??
mysql.c: In function â??time_initializeâ??:
mysql.c:1703: warning: control reaches end of non-void function
mysql.c: In function â??stmt_executeâ??:
mysql.c:1365: warning: â??t.time_typeâ?? is used uninitialized in this
function
mysql.c:1378: warning: â??t.time_typeâ?? is used uninitialized in this
function
Makefile:111: warning: overriding commands for target
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mysql-2.7/lib' Makefile:109: warning: ignoring old commands for target/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mysql-2.7/lib’
ruby extconf.rb install mysql – --include=/usr/local/lib
checking for mysql_query() in -lmysqlclient… yes
checking for mysql_ssl_set()… yes
checking for mysql.h… no
checking for mysql/mysql.h… yes
creating Makefile

make
gcc -fPIC -Wall -g -O2 -fPIC -I. -I/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/i486-linux
-I/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/i486-linux -I. -DHAVE_MYSQL_SSL_SET
-DHAVE_MYSQL_MYSQL_H -I/usr/local/include -c mysql.c
gcc -shared -L"/usr/local/lib" -L"/usr/lib" -o mysql.so mysql.o
-lruby1.8 -lmysqlclient -lpthread -ldl -lcrypt -lm -lc

make install
/usr/bin/install -c -m 0755 mysql.so
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mysql-2.7/lib
Successfully installed mysql-2.7

Here is my output:
koloa@ubuntu:/var/www/depot/config$ sudo gem install mysql –
–include=/usr/local/lib
Attempting local installation of ‘mysql’
Local gem file not found: mysql*.gem
Attempting remote installation of ‘mysql’
Updating Gem source index for: http://gems.rubyforge.org
Building native extensions. This could take a while…
extconf.rb:1:in `require’: no such file to load – mkmf (LoadError)
from extconf.rb:1
ERROR: While executing gem … (RuntimeError)
ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.
Gem files will remain installed in /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mysql-2.7
for inspection.
ruby extconf.rb install mysql – --include=/usr/local/lib\n

Results logged to /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mysql-2.7/gem_make.out

I really appreciate you helping and being patient with such a noob!

Craig W. wrote:

On Mon, 2006-02-27 at 04:31 +0100, bbqbaker wrote:

after reading the book some more, i noticed in the fine print that this
problem may be due to a bad install of ruby mysql library. if this is
so, what is the latest ruby mysql to get? thanks


says it right at the very top of database.yml file that you have to edit
to connect to your mysql db…

gem install mysql

Craig