Problem with my database.yml - access denied

Rails
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Trying to get Rails up and running on my webhost and I keep getting an
error when I try to generate the scaffolding.

here is there error:
Access denied for user ‘kgreer’@‘localhost’ to database
‘kgreer_DbMain’

Can I put my password “in the clear” in the database.yml? or am I
supposed to do some kind of hash of the password? I am using mySQL 5
as the database.

Also my password ends in an exclamation character. This doesn’t need
to be escaped in YAML does it?

Thanks,
Kelly Greer
[email protected]
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Hi Kelly,

kellygreer1 wrote:

Trying to get Rails up and running on my webhost
and I keep getting an error when I try to generate
the scaffolding.

here is there error:
Access denied for user ‘kgreer’@‘localhost’ to database
‘kgreer_DbMain’

Can I put my password “in the clear” in the database.yml?

Yes. The entry in database.yml is clear text.

Also my password ends in an exclamation character. This
doesn’t need to be escaped in YAML does it?

Never heard of a problem, but don’t know about the exclamation character
for
sure.

Best regards
Bill