From: Harp Oon <harpoon45@...>
Date: 2007-12-13T13:39:53+09:00
Subject: localhost issues

I just setup ruby and was trying to run the following commands:

>> class Story < ActiveRecord::Base; end
=> nil
>> story = Story.new

SocketError: getaddrinfo: Name or service not known
        from
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.0.1/lib/active_record/vendor/mysql.rb:111:in
`initialize'
        from
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.0.1/lib/active_record/vendor/mysql.rb:111:in
`new'
        from
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.0.1/lib/active_record/vendor/mysql.rb:111:in
`real_connect'
        from
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.0.1/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/mysql_adapter.rb:471:in
`connect'
        from
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.0.1/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/mysql_adapter.rb:165:in
`initialize'
        from
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.0.1/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/mysql_adapter.rb:88:in
`new'
        from
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.0.1/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/mysql_adapter.rb:88:in
`mysql_connection'
        from
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.0.1/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/abstract/connection_specification.rb:291:in
`send'
        from
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.0.1/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/abstract/connection_specification.rb:291:in
`connection='
        from
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.0.1/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/abstract/connection_specification.rb:259:in
`retrieve_connection'
        from
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.0.1/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/abstract/connection_specification.rb:78:in
`connection'
        from
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.0.1/lib/active_record/base.rb:1007:in
`columns'
        from
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.0.1/lib/active_record/base.rb:2290:in
`attributes_from_column_definition_without_lock'
        from
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.0.1/lib/active_record/locking/optimistic.rb:55:in
`attributes_from_column_definition'
        from
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.0.1/lib/active_record/base.rb:1849:in
`initialize'
        from (irb):2:in `new'
        from (irb):2>>

From what I read it said that there might be problem with /etc/hosts
I checked it and what I have in there is:

# Do not remove the following line, or various programs
# that require network functionality will fail.
127.0.0.1       localhost       localhost
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