# First Day issue

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/first-day-issue/89806>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [March 22, 2007, 9:06pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/first-day-issue/89806 "2007-03-22T21:06:21Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![ReDD](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/3ab097/32.png) [@ReDD](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ReDD)\
**Post date:** [March 22, 2007, 9:06pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/first-day-issue/89806/1 "2007-03-22T21:06:21Z")

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I’ll start off saying I don’t know much at all about RoR…today is my  
first day attempting.

I have been going through this tutorial (but I’m doing it on linux)

> **[Radar - O’Reilly](https://www.oreilly.com/radar/?page=3)**
>
> Now, next, and beyond: Tracking need-to-know trends at the intersection of business and technology

and get this when i try to view the /recipe/new page listed:

NameError in RecipeController#new

uninitialized constant Mysql

RAILS\_ROOT: script/…/config/…  
Application Trace | Framework Trace | Full Trace

This error occured while loading the following files:  
active\_record/mysql.rb

Request

Parameters: None

Show session dump

* * *

flash: !ruby/hash:ActionController::Flash::FlashHash {}

Response  
Headers: {“cookie”=\>[], “Cache-Control”=\>“no-cache”}

I’m obviously missing a mysql.rb, but googling pulls only 1 unresolved  
forum post…any Ideas what I’m missing? Is there some mysql module I  
didn’t load? Thanks in advance!

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**Author:** ![ReDD](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/3ab097/32.png) [@ReDD](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ReDD)\
**Post date:** [March 22, 2007, 9:14pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/first-day-issue/89806/2 "2007-03-22T21:14:23Z")

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I don’t know which distro you’re using, but there should my a package  
to provide MySQL bindings to Ruby. That’s probably what is missing in  
your setup.

Cheers,

Luciano

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**Author:** ![ReDD](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/3ab097/32.png) [@ReDD](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ReDD)\
**Post date:** [March 22, 2007, 9:16pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/first-day-issue/89806/3 "2007-03-22T21:16:23Z")

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# /my/be/ makes my previous message more readable:

I don’t know which distro you’re using, but there should be a package  
to provide MySQL bindings to Ruby. That’s probably what is missing in  
your setup.

Cheers,

Luciano

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**Author:** ![ReDD](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/3ab097/32.png) [@ReDD](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ReDD)\
**Post date:** [March 22, 2007, 9:28pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/first-day-issue/89806/4 "2007-03-22T21:28:25Z")

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apt-get install libdbd-mysql-ruby1.8

Fixed it! (well now I get access denied but thats an issue in my .yml  
file I’m sure)

Thanks alot.