New problem with Mac OS X + rails + mysql. Please help!

Rails
1

All,
I am working through the ‘depot’ sample application from the
“Pragmatic Programmers” book on my
powerbook. I was going through the install process on
Dan Benjamin
ruby_rails_lighttpd_mysql_tiger and it seemed to work fine.
But when I try to create the first table, I get the following error,
and I have no idea what this means.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks

(My database.yml file looks like this:
development:
adapter: mysql
database: depot_development
host: localhost
username: root
password:

=====================
error:
mycomputer:~/Rails/depot dvollmar$ ruby script/generate scaffold Product
Admin
/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/yaml.rb:119:in load': parse error on line 11, col 11: username: root’ (ArgumentError)
from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/yaml.rb:119:in `load’
… lines deleted)

    from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-1.2.5/lib/

active_support/dependencies.rb:
214:in `require’
from script/generate:3

2

Kavika V. <kavika@…> writes:

BTW: This happens when I try to start the server:
David-Vollmars-Computer:~/Rails/depot dvollmar$ ruby script/server
=> Booting WEBrick…
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.13.2/lib/active_record/
connection_adapters/abstract/connection_specification.rb:73:in
`establish_connection’: development database is not configured
(ActiveRecord::AdapterNotSpecified)
from
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.13.2/lib/active_record/
…
(Using database.yml:
development:
adapter: mysql
database: depot_development
username: root
password: <MY_SQL_PASSWORT>
host: localhost
port: 3306

3

Could you have a tab before the “username: root” in your YAML file? I
believe you can’t use tags, just spaces. Note the error message has
whitespace between ’ and username.

HTH,
Dean

On 1/14/06, Kavika V. [email protected] wrote:

mycomputer:~/Rails/depot dvollmar$ ruby script/generate scaffold Product Admin

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4

Thanks! Indeed removing tabs made that problem go away. Now I get t
the following error when starting webrick or trying to create the
tables.

database.yml

development:
adapter: mysql
database: depot_development
username: root
password: <MY_PASSWORD>
host: localhost
port: 3306

error

David-Vollmars-Computer:~/Rails/depot dvollmar$ ruby script/server
=> Booting WEBrick…
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.13.2/lib/active_record/
connection_adapters/abstract/connection_specification.rb:73:in
establish_connection': development database is not configured (ActiveRecord::AdapterNotSpecified) from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.13.2/lib/active_record/ connection_adapters/abstract/connection_specification.rb:66:inestablish_connection’

I am a little bit confused about the ‘socket’ value that shows up in the
default database.yml file.
What should that be? I can not find any explanation for this anywhere.

Thanks!

5

Ezra Z. <ezra@…> writes:
…

WebMaster
Yakima Herald-Republic Newspaper
ezra@…
509-577-7732

Thanks, I fixed that, now I am getting the dreaded error:
development database is not configured
(ActiveRecord::AdapterNotSpecified)

???

6

On Jan 13, 2006, at 10:32 PM, Kavika V. wrote:

mycomputer:~/Rails/depot dvollmar$ ruby script/generate scaffold
Product Admin
/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/yaml.rb:119:in load': parse error on line 11, col 11: username: root’ (ArgumentError)
from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/yaml.rb:119:in `load’
… lines deleted)

    from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-1.2.5/lib/

active_support/dependencies.rb:
214:in `require’
from script/generate:3

Kavika-

You have some tab chars in your database.yml. YAML cannot have any

tabs in it. I can see tabs between host: and locathost. Go through
your whole database.yml and get rid of all tabs and extra spaces and
you will be fine.

Cheers-
-Ezra Z.
WebMaster
Yakima Herald-Republic Newspaper
[email protected]
509-577-7732