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For Google, Rails on Tiger not reading database.yml

Saturday | June 18, 2005 | 10:59 pm  

It’s late but I thought I should post this for folks Googling…

If you’re trying to develop a Rails app locally on your Tiger Mac, and it seems like your app isn’t read­ing your user­name and pass­word for your MySQL data­base server, here’s the issue.

Rails ships with a built-​in all-​Ruby MySQL adapter that doesn’t seem to pick up that username/pass. I’m not smart enough to tell you why, but it doesn’t.

So you’ll need to install MySQL, which you can get here.

Then do:

sudo gem install mysql — –with-mysql-dir=/usr/local/mysql

That installs a native-​built MySQL adapter. Your Rails app will pick up the DB config and all will be well with the world.

Update: I should have included the error mes­sage you’ll see. You’ll get some­thing along the lines of this:

Permission denied for use ''@'yourdomain.really.is.here.com' (Using Password: NO)

And you’ll get this despite the fact that you have a user­name and pass­word in the database.yml file.

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Dreamhost has Rails, Fastcgi

Saturday | June 18, 2005 | 1:56 pm  

Hooray!

Dreamhost now sup­ports Rails and FastCGI.

Now, other than this blog, I’m nor­mally a TextDrive kind of person, but Erica’s school signed a con­tract with Dreamhost.

I prob­a­bly should have advised them to sign up with TextDrive, but at the time I hadn’t used them that long and Dreamhost was a known quan­tity that I’d feel safe in recommending.

Plus, at the time, the school was just look­ing for cheap host­ing for their mostly static with a wee bit o’ PHP site — which Dreamhost is fine for.

But sub­se­quently, they’ve been look­ing to do more and more and more with their Web site, and in hind­sight, I’ve been wish­ing that I’d sent them to TextDrive because of their great sup­port for developer-​friendly technologies.

But now that Dreamhost has Rails, I can help them build some great apps (in my spare time, ha ha), until they can make a move to TextDrive.

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