Webrick will not start on OSX 10.6.4. Snow Leopard

I cannot get Rails to play nice with my MacPorts installed MySQL5:

$ script/server
=> Booting WEBrick
=> Rails 2.3.8 application starting on http://0.0.0.0:3000
/opt/local/lib/ruby/1.8/yaml.rb:133:in load': syntax error on line 24, col 2: socket: /opt/local/var/run/mysql5/
mysqld.sock’ (ArgumentError)
from /opt/local/lib/ruby/1.8/yaml.rb:133:in load' from /opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-2.3.8/lib/initializer.rb: 902:in database_configuration’
from /opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-2.3.8/lib/initializer.rb:
437:in initialize_database' from /opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-2.3.8/lib/initializer.rb: 141:in process’
from /opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-2.3.8/lib/initializer.rb:
113:in send' from /opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-2.3.8/lib/initializer.rb: 113:in run’
from /Users/jasper/rails/rails_space/config/environment.rb:9
from /opt/local/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:
31:in gem_original_require' from /opt/local/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb: 31:in require’
from /opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-2.3.8/lib/
active_support/dependencies.rb:156:in require' from /opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-2.3.8/lib/ active_support/dependencies.rb:521:in new_constants_in’
from /opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-2.3.8/lib/
active_support/dependencies.rb:156:in require' from /opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-2.3.8/lib/commands/ server.rb:84 from /opt/local/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb: 31:in gem_original_require’
from /opt/local/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:
31:in `require’
from script/server:3

How to remedy this… The socket is in /opt/local/var/run/mysql5/
mysqld.sock:

me$ pwd
/opt/local/var/run/mysql5
me$ ls
mysqld.sock

so what is the issue?

On Jun 19, 1:29 pm, rhand-on-ruby [email protected] wrote:

I cannot get Rails to play nice with my MacPorts installed MySQL5:

$ script/server
=> Booting WEBrick
=> Rails 2.3.8 application starting onhttp://0.0.0.0:3000
/opt/local/lib/ruby/1.8/yaml.rb:133:in load': syntax error on line 24, col 2: socket: /opt/local/var/run/mysql5/
mysqld.sock’ (ArgumentError)

It’s saying that there is a syntax error in your database.yml file

Fred