I posted this to the ruby on rails google group, but this forum is probably a better place to find the answer. I''m going through the ''how to make a blog in 15 minutes'' tutorial on my ibook right now. I have mysql, ruby, and rails all setup, and the tutorial was going smoothly until I tried to configure the database.yml file. I create a mysql user and gave him privileges to the appropriate tables, but now when i go to http://0.0.0.0:3000/blog, my browser just stalls and keeps saying ''Loading...''. I don''t get any usefull error messages from the server. I changed the mysql password settings back and forth between old and new, and that didn''t seem to help. When I put a bad mysql user/password, I get a connection error, so this problem only seems to be happening when I use a good u/p pair. I have the following in my socket: /tmp/mysql.sock, and this seems to be OK since it is able to generate errors when I enter a bad username or password. I checked the log/development.log file, and here are the last several lines that result from me hitting refresh on the blog page 3 times: Processing BlogController#index (for 127.0.0.1 at 2006-03-06 21:34:13) [GET] Parameters: {"action"=>"index", "controller"=>"blog"} Processing BlogController#index (for 127.0.0.1 at 2006-03-06 21:37:16) [GET] Parameters: {"action"=>"index", "controller"=>"blog"} Processing BlogController#index (for 127.0.0.1 at 2006-03-06 21:44:58) [GET] Parameters: {"action"=>"index", "controller"=>"blog"} So the app just seems to be freezing, without spitting out an error message. Does anyone have any ideas what might be causing this problem or how I could troubleshoot this to try to get a more usefull error message? Any help is greatly appreciated. Kortina -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.