A rather n00by question on rake, from "Build Your Own RoR Ap

Hi! I had a question on rake. I am going through Mr. Lenz’s book, and
have
been coasting through successfully until I hit the section in Ch. 6 on
testing. At the command line, in my application root, I typed: $ rake
test:units

My error message was:

daniel-ahns-power-mac-g5:~/Sites/shovell dannyG5$ rake test:units
(in /Users/dannyG5/Sites/shovell)
rake aborted!
#28000Access denied for user ‘root’@‘localhost’ (using password: NO)

(See full trace by running task with --trace)

It seems as if rake is trying to communicate with mysql – i put a
password
on mysql, though my username is still root. Do I have to log on to
mysql or
somehow provide rake with my mysql password so it can successfully test?
How do I do that?

When I used $ rake db:migrate, everything worked fine, so I’m confused,
as
my mysql knowledge is at a beginner level.

I’m on a G5 OSX 10.4.10, running Ruby 1.8.6, rails 1.2.3, mysql 5. Any
help
would be greatly appreciated!

Daniel


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will
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Hi,

2007/8/2, Daniel A. [email protected]:

daniel-ahns-power-mac-g5:~/Sites/shovell dannyG5$ rake test:units
(in /Users/dannyG5/Sites/shovell)
rake aborted!
#28000Access denied for user ‘root’@‘localhost’ (using password: NO)

As you said, there is a password for user “root” on your MySQL DB. You
must
put this password into your config/databas.yml for the test environment.

Lutz

Once you’ve changed that you can double check:

mysqladmin -u root -p password

Hi,

2007/8/2, Shane K. [email protected]:

mysqladmin -u root -p password

But be aware that there must not be a blank between “-p” and your
password.

Lutz

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Lutz H. wrote:

Hi,

you could also do mysql -u root -p (press enter) and then get a prompt
for password.
this is useful if there are people watching your monitor and you don’t
want to type the pass in clear text.

jp antunes

http://ruby-lang.org/pt
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