From: James Britt <james_b@...>
Date: 2005-04-05T12:33:11+09:00
Subject: Re: Problem running Rails sample app from O'Reilly

Chris Wanstrath wrote:
> 
> I'm not a Windows guy, but in *nix that message usually means your
> MySQL server isn't running.  It's looking for the file
> '/tmp/mysql.sock' to find out how to access the server.  So either
> your MySQL server isn't running, or you need to somehow tell Rails
> that you're on Windows (maybe that's in that LAMP article?).  Sorry I
> can't be of more help, but it's a start.

You may want to ask this on the Rails list, but offhand it may be that 
Windows Mysql isn't putting that file where code expects it.

James