Instant Rails will automatically start up MySQL (and Apache) when it starts (unless you configure it not to do so). If you want IR to start automatically, you can place a short curt to InstantRails.exe in your startup folder. Curt PS These are the kind of questions that it would be best to post to the Instant Rails Users mailing list. That way you can still get you questions answer even if I''m not available. On 6/27/06, Orozco, Ricardo <ricardo.orozco at hp.com> wrote:> > Hello Mr. Hibbs, > > > > I installed ruby on rails a few days ago. I came to a problem when I > tried running MySQL-Front on MySQL server. *I can''t seem to be able to > start it from the command window*, instead I have to go in manually and > start it using the IntantRails.exe program (I personally don''t like doing > it manually so I want to know how to do it from the command window). When I > try to start it from the command window, everything seems normal except that > when I run MySQL-Front, to create a database, I get the error "Cannot > connect to MySQL server on ''localhost''". I hope you can advise me what to > do. > > > > Thank you so much for your time, > > > > > > Ricardo Orozco > > >-------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://rubyforge.org/pipermail/instantrails-users/attachments/20060627/ff8ecd1e/attachment.html