From: Phlip <phlip2005@...>
Date: 2009-02-01T02:20:03+09:00
Subject: Re: rake db:migrate not working

Chris Gunnels wrote:

> I keep getting access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using
> password: YES)
> 
> this is all I have in my database.yml file:
> development:
>   adapter: mysql
>   database: devel
>   user: root
>   password: xxxxxx
>   host: localhost

This is a Rails question (Ruby is a language) - further discussion belongs on 
Ruby on Rails Talk forum at Google Groups.

Run this at a command prompt:

   mysql -uroot

If you get in (very likely for out-of-the-box MySQL), then take out the password 
line in that YAML file!

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