From: Luc Dubois <dubois@...>
Date: 2005-01-21T23:46:04+09:00
Subject: Re: [Rails] ONLamp article on Rails

Curt Hibbs wrote:
> Luc Dubois wrote:
> 
>>Ah, it didn't take long for this beginner to get stuck ;-)
>>
>>I got as far as creating the recipe_controller.rb and when I opened my
>>browser to "http://127.0.0.1:3000/recipe/new" I got the message
>>"#42000Unknown database 'rails_development'"
>>
>>My database.yml is exactly as described in the article (i.e. the 3
>>databases are called "cookbook"), I'm not aware of skipping any of the
>>steps, after triple-checking the whole sequence. I can't even find a
>>file which contains in its contents 'rails_development' in the whole
>>cookbook directory structure.
> 
> The database.yml  file originally used "rails_development" as the db name
> before you changed it to cookbook, but it sounds like rails isn't seeing
> your change. Are your sure your saved the changes? If so, maybe something
> has been cached. Try restarting your web server (or machine).
> 
> Curt
> 

Thanks, Curt, restarting the web server did the trick. I should have
thought about that myself, but being a beginner I was *convinced*
that *I* had made a mistake somewhere...

On to the next step, this is going to be a lot of fun, I feel it, you 
have a very enthousiastic style of writing, it'll be hard NOT to keep 
going...

luc