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...ddenly getting this rake error where as before I wasn''t. And nothing''s been changed. As you can see it says something about "load_missing_constant". Is my development environment broken? Can someone please tell me what this error means?: bbgun@echobase:~/RailsProjects/rails_space$ rake test:functionals (in /home/bbgun/RailsProjects/rails_space) /usr/local/bin/ruby -Ilib:test "/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.7.3/lib/rake/rake_test_loader.rb" "test/functional/user_controller_test.rb" "test/functional/community_controller_test.rb" "t...

I am a newbie to RoR and I''m having trouble getting testing up and running. I tried Googling my problem and haven''t found an answer that has worked. When I run rake db:test:prepare, I get the following error (I''m working with the RailsSpace book): Macintosh:rails_space myusername$ rake db:test:prepare (in /Users/myusername/Documents/rails_projects/rails_space) rake aborted! Mysql::Error: You have an error in your SQL syntax. Check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ''DEFAULT CHARACTER SET `utf8`'...

...ame thing happens for any version I pick from th list. I am using: gcc (GCC) 4.1.2 (Ubuntu 4.1.2-0ubuntu4) ruby 1.8.5 (2006-08-25) [i486-linux] gem 0.9.4 No idea how to fix this -- please help! Thanks, Geth ======================================================== gethryn at gethryn-desktop:~/rails_space$ sudo gem install ferret Password: Select which gem to install for your platform (i486-linux) 1. ferret 0.11.4 (ruby) 2. ferret 0.11.4 (mswin32) 3. ferret 0.11.3 (ruby) 4. ferret 0.11.2 (ruby) 5. Skip this gem 6. Cancel installation > 1 Building native extensions. This could take a while....