From: John Joyce Date: 2007-09-07T02:48:55+09:00 Subject: Re: ruby on rails with mysqladmin On Sep 6, 2007, at 12:30 PM, JeremyWoertink@gmail.com wrote: > Have you checked your task manager to see if the mysql service is > running? Can you get into mysql with just: mysql -u root and then > create it through there? Did you restart your computer? Have you tried > uninstalling and reinstalling mysql? > > if yes to all of these, then I have no clue hopefully someone else > does. > > > ~Jeremy > > > > On Sep 6, 8:25 am, "a marc aurele" wrote: >> Ah, yes, that is the other thing, you need to make sure the mysql server application is running! You can configure it to startup when your system starts up. You might also consider exploring the GUI apps that now come packaged with mysql. they can be pretty useful for beginners with mysql