# \<\<starting mysql in virtual rails question\>\>

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/starting-mysql-in-virtual-rails-question/193517>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [August 19, 2010, 2:47am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/starting-mysql-in-virtual-rails-question/193517 "2010-08-19T02:47:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/58956e/32.png) [@casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/casper_the_ghost)\
**Post date:** [August 19, 2010, 2:47am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/starting-mysql-in-virtual-rails-question/193517/1 "2010-08-19T02:47:09Z")

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I have virtual machine and virtual rails installed on my machine. I  
opened up a terminal to start the rubystack version of MySQL by typing  
the following:

/opt/rubystack-2.0-0

when I do this I get the following message:

bash: /opt/rubystack-2.0-0: is a directory

I am new to this and this is what was instructed in the tutorial on  
[virtualrails.org](http://virtualrails.org). I am trying to navigate to the directory so I can  
start the MySQL. What am I doing wrong?

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**Author:** ![casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/58956e/32.png) [@casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/casper_the_ghost)\
**Post date:** [August 19, 2010, 3:32am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/starting-mysql-in-virtual-rails-question/193517/2 "2010-08-19T03:32:49Z")

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Open a terminal, navigate to the /opt/rubystack-2.0-0 folder, and run  
“sudo  
./ctlscript.sh start”