Rails - Jun 2006 - Newbie Question to Get Rolling on Rails

I''m not sure if this is the right place to ask such questions.  If not,
my
apologies and please direct me where such questions are handled.

I am new to RoR and have been following the tutorial in Agile Web Developement
with Rails.  I have successfully gotten RoR up and running on my Mac (OS X
10.4.6) and created a MySQL database.  However, on page 57 of the tutorial, the
command "script/generate scaffold Product Admin" is causing the
following error:

/usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/yaml.rb:133:in `load'': syntax error on line 27,
col 2: `
 host: localhost'' (ArgumentError)
        from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/yaml.rb:133:in `load''
        from
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-1.1.2/lib/initializer.rb:459:in
`database_configuration''
        from
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-1.1.2/lib/initializer.rb:181:in
`initialize_database''
        from
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-1.1.2/lib/initializer.rb:84:in
`process''
        from
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-1.1.2/lib/initializer.rb:42:in
`run''
        from ./script/../config/../config/environment.rb:13
        from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:21:in
`require''
        from
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-1.3.1/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:147:in
`require''
        from
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-1.1.2/lib/commands/generate.rb:1
        from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:21:in
`require''
        from
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-1.3.1/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:147:in
`require''
        from script/generate:3

I''m not sure what this error means.  If you have any suggestions as to
what I
could do to get rolling on rails I''d appreciate it.

Regards

-----------------
Justin J. Luciani
www.healthylivingnyc.com

On 6/19/06, Justin J. Luciani <jluciani@healthylivingnyc.com>
wrote:
> I''m not sure if this is the right place to ask such questions.  If
not, my
> apologies and please direct me where such questions are handled.
It is.
> I am new to RoR and have been following the tutorial in Agile Web
Developement
> with Rails.  I have successfully gotten RoR up and running on my Mac (OS X
> 10.4.6) and created a MySQL database.  However, on page 57 of the tutorial,
the
> command "script/generate scaffold Product Admin" is causing the
following error:
>
> /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/yaml.rb:133:in `load'': syntax error on
line 27, col 2: `
>  host: localhost'' (ArgumentError)
>         from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/yaml.rb:133:in `load''
>         from
> /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-1.1.2/lib/initializer.rb:459:in
Make sure that the whitespace in your YAML files are actually spaces
and not tabs.

-- James

James,

Thanks so much for getting back to me.  I have never edited that file so I
couldn''t imagine there being any whitespace in it.  I don''t
understand the code
in the yaml file and don''t want to erase anything important.  Are you
certain
that the whitespace is the cause of this error?

Thanks again, I do appreciate it.

Regards,
Justin

Quoting James Ludlow <jamesludlow@gmail.com>:
> On 6/19/06, Justin J. Luciani <jluciani@healthylivingnyc.com> wrote:
> > I''m not sure if this is the right place to ask such
questions.  If not, my
> > apologies and please direct me where such questions are handled.
>
> It is.
>
> > I am new to RoR and have been following the tutorial in Agile Web
> Developement
> > with Rails.  I have successfully gotten RoR up and running on my Mac
(OS X
> > 10.4.6) and created a MySQL database.  However, on page 57 of the
tutorial,
> the
> > command "script/generate scaffold Product Admin" is causing
the following
> error:
> >
> > /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/yaml.rb:133:in `load'': syntax error
on line 27, col
> 2: `
> >  host: localhost'' (ArgumentError)
> >         from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/yaml.rb:133:in `load''
> >         from
> >
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-1.1.2/lib/initializer.rb:459:in
>
> Make sure that the whitespace in your YAML files are actually spaces
> and not tabs.
>
> -- James
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-----------------
Justin J. Luciani
President HL Productions
(201) 981-6352
www.healthylivingnyc.com

On 6/19/06, Justin J. Luciani <jluciani@healthylivingnyc.com>
wrote:
> James,
>
> Thanks so much for getting back to me.  I have never edited that file so I
> couldn''t imagine there being any whitespace in it.  I
don''t understand the code
> in the yaml file and don''t want to erase anything important.  Are
you certain
> that the whitespace is the cause of this error?
Certain?  No.  But if you put a tab into database.yml when you set
your connection info, you''ll get that error.

-- James

James Ludlow wrote:
> On 6/19/06, Justin J. Luciani <jluciani@healthylivingnyc.com> wrote:
>> James,
>>
>> Thanks so much for getting back to me.  I have never edited that file
so I
>> couldn''t imagine there being any whitespace in it.  I
don''t understand the code
>> in the yaml file and don''t want to erase anything important. 
Are you certain
>> that the whitespace is the cause of this error?
> 
> Certain?  No.  But if you put a tab into database.yml when you set
> your connection info, you''ll get that error.
> 
> -- James
Bang on there. I had this problem in that I had:

Password:MyDBpassword

Instead of:

Password: MyDBpassword


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