# Radiant install problem

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/radiant-install-problem/91830>\
**Category:** Radiant CMS\
**Created:** [April 12, 2007, 6:38pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/radiant-install-problem/91830 "2007-04-12T18:38:41Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 12\
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**Author:** ![lumao66](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/b5a626/32.png) [@lumao66](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/lumao66)\
**Post date:** [April 12, 2007, 6:38pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/radiant-install-problem/91830/1 "2007-04-12T18:38:41Z")

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hi,  
I want ot install radiant on windows, but when i execute the

ruby script/setup\_database production

i have such exception:  
Creating tables…  
– drop\_table(“config”)  
– create\_table(“config”, {:force=\>true})  
FAILED  
./script/…/config/…/vendor/rails/activerecord/lib/active\_record/vendor/mysql.r  
b:551:in `initialize': wrong number of arguments (1 for 0) (ArgumentError) from ./script/../config/../vendor/rails/activerecord/lib/active_record/v endor/mysql.rb:551:in`new’  
from  
./script/…/config/…/vendor/rails/activerecord/lib/active\_record/v  
endor/mysql.rb:551:in `scramble41' from ./script/../config/../vendor/rails/activerecord/lib/active_record/v endor/mysql.rb:141:in`real\_connect’  
from  
./script/…/config/…/vendor/rails/activerecord/lib/active\_record/c  
onnection\_adapters/mysql\_adapter.rb:330:in `connect' from ./script/../config/../vendor/rails/activerecord/lib/active_record/c onnection_adapters/mysql_adapter.rb:87:in`initialize’  
from  
./script/…/config/…/vendor/rails/activerecord/lib/active\_record/c  
onnection\_adapters/mysql\_adapter.rb:36:in `new' from ./script/../config/../vendor/rails/activerecord/lib/active_record/c onnection_adapters/mysql_adapter.rb:36:in`mysql\_connection’  
from  
./script/…/config/…/vendor/rails/activerecord/lib/active\_record/c  
can anyone do me the favour? thank you.

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**Author:** ![lumao66](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/b5a626/32.png) [@lumao66](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/lumao66)\
**Post date:** [April 12, 2007, 9:08pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/radiant-install-problem/91830/2 "2007-04-12T21:08:00Z")

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Several questions before we can help you:

1. Is MySQL running? Did you create the database?
2. What version of Radiant are you using? (0.5.2, 0.6RC2, mental…)
3. Did you create/copy database.yml?

Sean

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**Author:** ![lumao66](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/b5a626/32.png) [@lumao66](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/lumao66)\
**Post date:** [April 13, 2007, 9:45am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/radiant-install-problem/91830/3 "2007-04-13T09:45:21Z")

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Sean C. wrote:

> Several questions before we can help you:
> 
> 1. Is MySQL running? Did you create the database?
> 2. What version of Radiant are you using? (0.5.2, 0.6RC2, mental…)
> 3. Did you create/copy database.yml?
> 
> Sean

Hi Sean,  
Thank you for your reply.  
1)Database is running. radiant\_development.  
2)I am using radiant-0.5.2  
3)here is my database.yml  
development:  
adapter: mysql  
database: radiant\_development  
username: root  
password: sa  
host: localhost

# Warning: The database defined as ‘test’ will be erased and

# re-generated from your development database when you run ‘rake’.

# Do not set this db to the same as development or production.

test:  
adapter: mysql  
database: radiant\_test  
username: root  
password: sa  
host: localhost

production:  
adapter: mysql  
database: radiant\_production  
username: root  
password: sa  
host: localhost

Thank you.

captain

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**Author:** ![lumao66](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/b5a626/32.png) [@lumao66](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/lumao66)\
**Post date:** [April 15, 2007, 7:17pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/radiant-install-problem/91830/4 "2007-04-15T19:17:29Z")

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Radiant supports any database supported by Rails. So, yes, it supports  
MySQL 5, and that’s what I run on my local machine.

Sean

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**Author:** ![lumao66](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/b5a626/32.png) [@lumao66](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/lumao66)\
**Post date:** [April 15, 2007, 7:58am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/radiant-install-problem/91830/5 "2007-04-15T07:58:20Z")

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Hi Sean,  
Does radiant0.5.2.2 supports Mysql5.0?  
Regards.  
captain

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**Post date:** [April 15, 2007, 8:35pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/radiant-install-problem/91830/6 "2007-04-15T20:35:47Z")

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Sean C. wrote:

> Radiant supports any database supported by Rails.

Well, not quite. We actively test on mysql, sqlite, and postgres.

I’m open to supporting other databases as well and I will happily apply  
any patches that resolve problems for a particular adapter. I’d even be  
willing to hand commit rights over to anyone who is willing to maintain  
code for a particular database adapter (outside the three I just  
mentioned).

It is relatively straightforward to get Radiant running on another  
database adapter.

–  
John L.  
[http://wiseheartdesign.com](http://wiseheartdesign.com)

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**Post date:** [April 16, 2007, 5:53am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/radiant-install-problem/91830/7 "2007-04-16T05:53:38Z")

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Hi Captain Yu

You are not alone. I post the same question some days ago, and still  
now got no solution ☹

/Jack

On 4/13/07, captain yu [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

> ./script/…/config/…/vendor/rails/activerecord/lib/active\_record/vendor/mysql.r  
> ./script/…/config/…/vendor/rails/activerecord/lib/active\_record/v

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**Post date:** [April 16, 2007, 5:54am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/radiant-install-problem/91830/8 "2007-04-16T05:54:38Z")

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On 4/16/07, Sean C. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

> Radiant supports any database supported by Rails. So, yes, it supports  
> MySQL 5, and that’s what I run on my local machine.
> 
> Sean

Hi, Sean

What’s your OS? windows or linux?

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**Post date:** [April 16, 2007, 3:18pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/radiant-install-problem/91830/9 "2007-04-16T15:18:43Z")

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Captain F. wrote:

> …☹ ok, in order to catch the problem, let me describe my steps in  
> detailed:  
> Environment:  
> OS:Windows XP  
> DB:Mysql 5.0  
> Rails:1.2.3  
> Ruby:1.8.6

Mmm, I’m not sure if 0.5.2 is compatible with ruby 1.8.6. Can you  
install the second release candidate for 0.6?

[http://radiantcms.org/blog/2007/03/08/radiant-0-6-release-candidate-2/](http://radiantcms.org/blog/2007/03/08/radiant-0-6-release-candidate-2/)

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**Post date:** [April 16, 2007, 4:08pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/radiant-install-problem/91830/10 "2007-04-16T16:08:52Z")

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Windows XP, MySQL 5.022.

I’d rather be running Ubuntu if I could give up Blizzard games, or Mac  
OSX if I could afford a shiny new MacBook Pro. But right now I’m on  
Windows.

Sean

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**Post date:** [April 16, 2007, 4:09pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/radiant-install-problem/91830/11 "2007-04-16T16:09:52Z")

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Ok, I didn’t realize you were using 0.5.2. You should probably install  
Rails 1.1.6 as well, I’m not sure that 0.5 is compatible with 1.2.x.

gem install -y -v=1.1.6 rails

Sean

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**Post date:** [April 16, 2007, 10:20am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/radiant-install-problem/91830/12 "2007-04-16T10:20:57Z")

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Jack Tang wrote:

> Hi Captain Yu
> 
> You are not alone. I post the same question some days ago, and still  
> now got no solution ☹
> 
> /Jack
> 
> On 4/13/07, captain yu [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:
> 
> > ./script/…/config/…/vendor/rails/activerecord/lib/active\_record/vendor/mysql.r  
> > ./script/…/config/…/vendor/rails/activerecord/lib/active\_record/v
> 
> –  
> Keep Discovering … …  
> [http://jack.lifegoo.com](http://jack.lifegoo.com)

…☹ ok, in order to catch the problem, let me describe my steps in  
detailed:  
Environment:  
OS:Windows XP  
DB:Mysql 5.0  
Rails:1.2.3  
Ruby:1.8.6  
I directly downloaded the radiant0.5.2.2 and unziped to my computer  
instead of using gem;  
Created datebase: radiant\_dev radiant\_test radiant\_live;  
Created database.yml:  
////////////////  
development:  
adapter: mysql  
database: radiant\_dev  
username: root  
password: sa  
test:  
adapter: mysql  
database: radiant\_test  
username: root  
password: sa  
production:  
adapter: mysql  
database: radiant\_live  
username: root  
password: sa  
///////////////  
Executed ruby script/setup\_database production and got the following  
exception:Loading development environment…OK

WARNING! This script will overwrite information currently stored in the  
database “radiant\_dev”. Are you sure you want to continue? [Yn] Y

Creating tables…  
– drop\_table(“config”)  
– create\_table(“config”, {:force=\>true})  
FAILED  
./script/…/config/…/vendor/rails/activerecord/lib/active\_record/vendor/mysql.r  
b:551:in `initialize': wrong number of arguments (1 for 0) (ArgumentError) from ./script/../config/../vendor/rails/activerecord/lib/active_record/v endor/mysql.rb:551:in `new’  
from  
./script/…/config/…/vendor/rails/activerecord/lib/active\_record/v  
endor/mysql.rb:551:in `scramble41' from ./script/../config/../vendor/rails/activerecord/lib/active_record/v endor/mysql.rb:141:in `real\_connect’  
from  
./script/…/config/…/vendor/rails/activerecord/lib/active\_record/c  
onnection\_adapters/mysql\_adapter.rb:330:in `connect' from ./script/../config/../vendor/rails/activerecord/lib/active_record/c onnection_adapters/mysql_adapter.rb:87:in `initialize’  
from  
./script/…/config/…/vendor/rails/activerecord/lib/active\_record/c  
onnection\_adapters/mysql\_adapter.rb:36:in `new' from ./script/../config/../vendor/rails/activerecord/lib/active_record/c onnection_adapters/mysql_adapter.rb:36:in `mysql\_connection’  
from  
./script/…/config/…/vendor/rails/activerecord/lib/active\_record/c  
onnection\_adapters/abstract/connection\_specification.rb:251:in `send' ... 14 levels... from script/setup_database:99:in `create\_tables’  
from script/setup\_database:19:in `run' from script/setup_database:9:in `run’  
from script/setup\_database:297

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Ok, that's it, can anyone catch the problem?

```

Thanks and regards.  
captain
