From: Nicholas Van Weerdenburg <vanweerd@...>
Date: 2005-01-22T00:28:18+09:00
Subject: Re: [Rails] ONLamp article on Rails

On Fri, 21 Jan 2005 23:46:04 +0900, Luc Dubois <dubois@kavi.gr> wrote:
> 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
> 
> 

I second that. The prose is fantastic- lean, clean, and enthusiastic.

Nick
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Nicholas Van Weerdenburg