# Configuring Ruby with PHPMyAdmin

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/configuring-ruby-with-phpmyadmin/61225>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [May 22, 2006, 3:29am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/configuring-ruby-with-phpmyadmin/61225 "2006-05-22T03:29:42Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![matthew](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/ed655f/32.png) [@matthew](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/matthew)\
**Post date:** [May 22, 2006, 3:29am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/configuring-ruby-with-phpmyadmin/61225/1 "2006-05-22T03:29:42Z")

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Does anybody know how to configure Ruby to work with PHPMyAdmin?

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**Author:** ![matthew](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/ed655f/32.png) [@matthew](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/matthew)\
**Post date:** [May 22, 2006, 4:06am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/configuring-ruby-with-phpmyadmin/61225/2 "2006-05-22T04:06:13Z")

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Hi Matthew,

You probably don’t realize it, but Ruby Forum is actually a gateway to  
an entire mailing list with many hundreds of subscribers. While a  
question like you have posed might garner some responses on a forum,  
it would be helpful for the mailing list if you could provide more  
information.

For one thing, your question makes little sense. When you say Ruby do  
you really means Rails? Because why would one want to configure Ruby  
to work with PHPMyAdmin? To me that is akin to asking how I can  
configure a jet engine to work with an armadillo: they really aren’t  
related.

Ryan

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**Author:** ![matthew](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/ed655f/32.png) [@matthew](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/matthew)\
**Post date:** [May 22, 2006, 5:35am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/configuring-ruby-with-phpmyadmin/61225/3 "2006-05-22T05:35:33Z")

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My apologies Ryan. I am new to understanding Ruby and Ruby on Rails. And  
because of this it is hard asking the “right” questions to solve one’s  
problem. I basically have everything installed, but when I try and  
create a db with TextMate I have problems. When I try and get MySQL  
installed I keep getting this error:ERROR: While executing gem …  
(Errno::EACCES) I thought if I was having such problems with the Ruby  
version of MySQL why don’t I try using something I am more familiar  
with: PHPMyAdmin. I was following the video at this link to understand a  
little more about this stuff.

[https://locomotive.sourceforge.net/images/locomotive\_intro.mov](https://locomotive.sourceforge.net/images/locomotive_intro.mov)

Ryan, if you have suggestions at where I can become more familiar with  
this technology I would greatly appreciate it.

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**Author:** ![matthew](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/ed655f/32.png) [@matthew](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/matthew)\
**Post date:** [May 22, 2006, 3:08pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/configuring-ruby-with-phpmyadmin/61225/4 "2006-05-22T15:08:44Z")

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Daniel ----- wrote:

> Hi Matthew.
> 
> Do you have your database.yaml configured with your MySQL database name,  
> username and password?

I will try that once I get home tonight. I am anxious to start using all  
this stuff. And again, I apogologize for the poor question. I am a  
neophyte with all this stuff.

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**Author:** ![matthew](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/ed655f/32.png) [@matthew](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/matthew)\
**Post date:** [May 22, 2006, 5:56am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/configuring-ruby-with-phpmyadmin/61225/5 "2006-05-22T05:56:18Z")

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Hi Matthew.

Do you have your database.yaml configured with your MySQL database name,  
username and password?