# Active Record Error **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [January 7, 2010, 7:39pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/active-record-error/181235 "2010-01-07T19:39:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![josequinonesii](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/35a633/32.png) [@josequinonesii](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/josequinonesii)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2010, 7:39pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/active-record-error/181235/1 "2010-01-07T19:39:34Z")
I’ve had to download an existing Rails project and I’m attempting to setup locally. I’ve installed all the 2.1.1 rails gems needed by the project as the existing site is at that version. My platform is Netbeans 6.8 on Windows Vista for development and prod is on linux. I’ve been able to setup test and other sites using the latetest version of rails but cant seem to get passed the below exception being thrown. So that’s why I’m email you out of the blue, to which I apologize, but I’m not seeing any solutions on the web or rails forums and you had mentioned you work with rails daily and thought you could quickly identify the problem area. C:/Program Files/NetBeans 6.8/ruby2/jruby-1.4.0/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/ activerecord-2.1.1/lib/active\_record/connection\_adapters/abstract/ connection\_specification.rb:215:in `establish_connection': undefined method`[]’ for false:FalseClass (NoMethodError) from C:/Program Files/NetBeans 6.8/ruby2/jruby-1.4.0/lib/ruby/ gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.1.1/lib/active\_record/connection\_adapters/ abstract/connection\_specification.rb:209:in `establish_connection' from C:/Program Files/NetBeans 6.8/ruby2/jruby-1.4.0/lib/ruby/ gems/1.8/gems/rails-2.1.1/lib/initializer.rb:341:in`initialize\_database’ from C:/Program Files/NetBeans 6.8/ruby2/jruby-1.4.0/lib/ruby/ gems/1.8/gems/rails-2.1.1/lib/initializer.rb:124:in `process' from C:/Program Files/NetBeans 6.8/ruby2/jruby-1.4.0/lib/ruby/ gems/1.8/gems/rails-2.1.1/lib/initializer.rb:97:in`run’ from C:/Users/josequinonesii/Websites/sterlinghome.com/config/ environment.rb:14 from C:/Users/josequinonesii/Websites/sterlinghome.com/config/ environment.rb:31:in `require' from C:/Program Files/NetBeans 6.8/ruby2/jruby-1.4.0/lib/ruby/ site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:31:in`require’ from C:/Program Files/NetBeans 6.8/ruby2/jruby-1.4.0/lib/ruby/ gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-2.1.1/lib/active\_support/dependencies.rb: 510:in `require' ... 9 levels... from C:/Program Files/NetBeans 6.8/ruby2/jruby-1.4.0/lib/ruby/ gems/1.8/gems/rails-2.1.1/lib/commands/server.rb:31:in`require’ from C:/Program Files/NetBeans 6.8/ruby2/jruby-1.4.0/lib/ruby/ site\_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom\_require.rb:31:in `require’ from script\server:3 My server doesn’t even start up when I attempt to run a local instance of the site. I can’t seem to find much info for Active Record trouble shooting. I’m connecting locally to a mysql instance and I’m able to connect with other rails apps running locally. development: adapter: mysql encoding: utf8 database: sterling\_local username: root password: mylocalpass host: localhost For the Ruby flavor what I sent you was a test of JRuby AFTER changing my configuration settings and ruby platform from Ruby 1.8.6 but I still get the same error in both flavors of Ruby, which is why it was ok to send you the exception stack because it was the same error. I even triple checked the ruby version and gems to ensure I was using the same version since I can have multiple ruby version installed and simply explicity reference the required ruby version (i.e., RAILS\_GEM\_VERSION = ‘2.1.1’ unless defined? RAILS\_GEM\_VERSION) and I’ve tried 2.2.2 as well as 2.3.5 just to see if I could get it to work but the same error occurs. Could there be an issue from developing with gems working on windows compared to gems working on linux? Could it be possible that when I downloaded the production site locally that one of the rb or erb files was corrupt or not completely downloaded? Other than ftp, is there a better way to download a production instance locally and setup my dev instance? I simply ftp’ed all the files and svn repositories to my work station. ---
**Author:** ![josequinonesii](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/35a633/32.png) [@josequinonesii](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/josequinonesii)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2010, 4:04pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/active-record-error/181235/2 "2010-01-11T16:04:51Z")
Please disregard. The solution was to re-download the site. I’ve got it working correctly now.