From: Peter Szinek Date: 2008-11-18T21:46:44+09:00 Subject: Re: ActiveRecord user --Apple-Mail-4--402683876 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > load 'tbl.rb' > > => true > > Tbl.class > > => Class > > Tbl.columns > > Mysql::Error: Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using > password: YES) By any chance, isn't it possible that tbl.rb is hijacking your connection? e.g. it contains a line ActiveRecord::Base.establish_connection(:user => 'root', :password => 'bad_password', :adapter => 'mysql', :database => 'the_db') Peter ___ http://www.rubyrailways.com http://scrubyt.org --Apple-Mail-4--402683876--