Rake migrate problems

I’ve been trying to build an app with migrations:

When I attempt:
$rake migrate

I get the following errors:

rake migrate --trace
(in /Users/intention/work/atlrugpoll_working)
** Invoke migrate (first_time)
** Invoke environment (first_time)
** Execute environment
** Execute migrate
^Crake aborted!

/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.13.2/lib/active_record/vendor/mysql.rb:1079:in
read' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.13.2/lib/active_record/vendor/mysql.rb:1079:inread’
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.13.2/lib/active_record/vendor/mysql.rb:499:in
read' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.13.2/lib/active_record/vendor/mysql.rb:492:incommand’
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.13.2/lib/active_record/vendor/mysql.rb:339:in
stat' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.13.2/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/mysql_adapter.rb:147:inactive?’
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.13.2/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/abstract/connection_specification.rb:103:in
retrieve_connection' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.13.2/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/abstract/connection_specification.rb:20:inconnection’
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.13.2/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/abstract/connection_specification.rb:107:in
retrieve_connection' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.13.2/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/abstract/connection_specification.rb:20:inconnection’
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.13.2/lib/active_record/migration.rb:178:in
migrate' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-1.0.0/lib/tasks/databases.rake:3 /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-1.0.0/lib/tasks/databases.rake:2:incall’
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.7.0/lib/rake.rb:232:in execute' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.7.0/lib/rake.rb:232:ineach’
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.7.0/lib/rake.rb:232:in execute' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.7.0/lib/rake.rb:202:ininvoke’
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.7.0/lib/rake.rb:195:in synchronize' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.7.0/lib/rake.rb:195:ininvoke’
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.7.0/lib/rake.rb:1719:in run' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.7.0/lib/rake.rb:1719:ineach’
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.7.0/lib/rake.rb:1719:in run' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.7.0/bin/rake:7 /usr/bin/rake:18:inload’
/usr/bin/rake:18

I posted on this before, but I can’t seem seem to find it with the
Search Form, nor can I find it from google site:ruby-forum.com

Any ideas what may be causing this?

thanks,
Bryan