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Hello: A plea for help. I''m following the instructions here: http://developer.apple.com/tools/rubyonrails.html I have everything working on my main machine, but my laptop is refusing to work. When I get to the step of ''rake migrate'' the process hangs. I have the output below. The mysql gem is installed, and a test program can talk to the database fine. The only