Hello there,
this is my first post and I’m new to Ruby on Rails.
I’m getting the following error when I do “rake db:create” :
(in /home/nelson/rubyapps/blog)
rake aborted!
syntax error on line 24, col 1: ` socket : /var/run/mysqld/
mysqld.sock’
Now the background:
I installed Ubuntu Karmic Koala 9.10 in a Sun VirtualBox virtual
machine running in a Windows XP host
Following Ubuntu installation I followed this guide :
http://www.hackido.com/2009/11/install-ruby-on-rails-on-ubuntu-karmic.html
until STEP 6 , included, to have RoR installed on the Ubuntu box
In step 1 I set my locale to pt-PT (I’m from Portugal) using
sudo locale-gen pt_PT.UTF-8
and
sudo /usr/sbin/update-locale LANG=pt_PT.UTF-8
Next I followed this guide:
to have RoR installed to a mysql database
When I get to step 3.4 Creating the Database I get the error displayed
above.
Note : I have a password defined in the database.yml file for the
DEVELOPMENT area, that reads as :
development:
adapter : mysql
enconding : utf8
reconnect : false
database : blog_development
pool : 5
username : root
password : <mypassword, same when installed mysql>
socket : /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock
The only thing I changed in this file was the password.
Any clue on why I get this error?
Thanks in advance,
Nelson