From: Wilson Bilkovich <wilsonb@...>
Date: 2006-01-26T00:53:45+09:00
Subject: Re: Rails, how do people figure out how to use it?

If you think that's hard, get ready for what it takes to get a Java
application server running. Heh.  Looking at the thread you linked to,
I'd say your troubles lie in a different place entirely.  I'm not a
big MySQL fan personally, but we can still probably get you up and
running.

Could you paste in your database.yml file, from the "config" folder
inside your Rails app?
If you have any passwords entered there, you should change them to
nonsense before sending.

Also, there is a whole mailing list for Rails where you are likely to
get quicker assistance.  If you post your reply there, I'd be happy to
continue this discussion without bothering the main Ruby list:
http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails

--Wilson.

On 1/25/06, anne001 <anne@wjh.harvard.edu> wrote:
> Lately I have been trying various things and I am amazed at what all
> the new technology requires from people.
>
> I tried to install a wiki, following what seemed a straight forward
> tutorial, and I had to install mysql,  search up and down the net to
> solve my error problems. Half of it was finding out that you have to
> start mysql somehow, before other things work. Luckily I had installed
> php for a flash project, so that was not new. I ended up removing
> mysql, upgrading php, mysql. Now I can't find the passwords, user names
> etc so I can't even use the wiki, if it is still there after
> unintalling reinstalling mysql to reset the root password!
>
> Today, I am trying to follow the agile web on rails, which also uses
> mysql, and I am back to hunting for ideas on what to do... As far as I
> can tell, I followed various fixes for tiger (fix 46, reinstal mysql
> gem, old password...) tried to figure out what to put,'root'@'localhost
> instead of 'dave'@'localhost', and what about "password:" in .yml,
> leave that blank as in the model? Despite my best efforts at
> deciphering the advice, terminal hangs on command from page 57
> ruby script/generate scaffold Product Admin
> I have no idea how to debug this, I just know I am not the only one,
> and my difficulty pails compared to some of the post I founds out there
> about "deployment" difficulties. I can't make head of tail of the
> problem or the fix:
> http://groups.google.com/group/rails_archive/browse_frm/thread/ff37b19ffba8e66e/1c0134aff52fb9a5?q=database.yml&rnum=3#1c0134aff52fb9a5
>
> Is rails only for web developers and programmers? How much do you need
> to know to have a remote chance of trying this program? Just curious
>
> Our programmer uses java to put up pictures on the web in a timed
> fashion, and collect responses from subjects over the web. I wanted to
> do it with Rails...
>
> anne
>
>
>