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Error Message: MyMysql::Error: Lost connection to MySQL server during query: SHOW FIELDS FROM products Running Fedora 5, using available Red Hat modules and latest version of Rails. This problem just appeared. I had been enjoying going through the tutorial "Depot" when it started displaying this problem. With phpMyAdmin I am able to access the depot_development data base containing

I have tried everything in my power to get this program up and running and it is not working for me. I have installed RoR on my Windows XP machine. I have Instant Rails and Ruby on Rails and I am using Instant Rails to connect the mySQL database to Ruby on Rails. It is not working. Everything works fine except when I create a scaffold it gives me an error in mySQL. The error reads, ">

hi everyone. I am learning RoR and just recently purchase the agile wed dev on rails. i am still at the beginning of the book trying to create the scaffold for the depot_development database. Everytime i run the generate scaffold products admin, i recieve the "before building the scaffold, try to create a table for model products" etc... a few questions: 1. How does ruby know that

This is the final release for Instant Rails 1.4. It corrects the two known problems with the preview1 release (two help menu items caused Instant Rails to crash). Instant Rails 1.4 contains the following major changes: * Upgrades Rails to version 1.1.6 (other components upgraded to current release, also) * SCGI has been replaced by Mongrel (using Apache''s mod_proxy for

This release of Instant Rails contains the following major changes: * Upgrades Rails to version 1.1.6 (other components upgraded to current release, also) * SCGI has been replaced by Mongrel (using Apache''s mod_proxy for forward requests). * For the development server, WEBrick has also been replaced by Mongrel. * Automatic RadRails configuration: if

I do not want to get the reputation as a spammer and be hated by the ruby and rails community??! But where are the best forums for help with rails and ruby please, and which ones are the most user freindly? I have a little tech problem: I have a lap top running xp home service pack two and I have installed ruby 1.8.2 and rails 1.0.0 I also have mysql 4.1.16-nt via tcp/ip running on the laptop, so

I''m following the example Depot app in Agile Web Development with Rails. The scaffold fails because it is not using the correct host for the user. Here is the error that the scaffold emits: Access denied for user ''jimmy''@''%'' to database ''depot_development'' The MySql user ''jimmy'' was created with the host of

What IDE can be used with InstantRails I have installed ?InstantRails-1.3a-win? on my PC. When I first started the InstantRails, an error message said something about unable to start Apache because Port 80 being used by another process. I went to change the Apache Port 80 and List 80 to Port 4001 and Listen 4001 respectively. I was ratrher pleased that ?phpmyadmin? was working at

Hi everyone, I''m working my way thru the ''Depot'' project from Agile Web Development with Rails. I got to the bit where I type: ruby script/generate scaffold Product admin And I get the following error: error Before updating scaffolding from new DB schema, try creating a table for your model (Product) ( on the last line ! ) Now I have followed everything as

Hi Guys First time on the list and pretty new to the rails way of doing things, yup I know sorry.. another newbie! anyway, apologies out of the way, this is the problem I am having... I have purchased the "Agile Development with Rails" book and have just started running through the ''Depot'' demo application. I have got to page 57... I have my project files all

I am following the instructions on Agile Web Development with Rails book "Iteratio E1: Capturing an Order" section. When I run the migrations I get the following error. rake db:migrate (in /Users/balaparanj/work/depot) -- execute("alter table line_items \n add constraint fk_line_item_products \n foreign key (product_id) references products(id)") rake

I''m new to Ruby and to fairly new to programming. I''ve been working through the "Agile Web Development with Rails" book, and I''m stuck on page 73 of the print version. The book''s online errata directed me here with my questions. I''m running Ruby 1.8.3 with MySQL 4.1.8 on OSX 10.3.9. I''ve created the scaffolding for Admin controller

Hi, A newbie in the RoR world, I''m already more or less stuck when generating the scaffold for my first tutorial project ... When I try to generate scaffold code for my version of the ''depot'' application from the ''Agile rails ...'' book, I receive the following error: #28000Access denied for user ''bo''@''localhost''

Just wandering if anyone can tell me how to format date when writing test data to upload to the db via a migration. ie, to match the date migration column format thanks -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

All, I am working through the ''depot'' sample application from the "Pragmatic Programmers" book on my powerbook. I was going through the install process on http://hivelogic.com/articles/2005/12/01/ ruby_rails_lighttpd_mysql_tiger and it seemed to work fine. But when I try to create the first table, I get the following error, and I have no idea what this means. Any

I am following the Agile Web Development with Rails pdf book, when I run the store application it gives me the "Table ''depot_development.sessions'' doesn''t exist" error message. How can I fix it? Thanks in advance. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Hi, I''m going through the Depot tutorial in the book "Agile Web Development with Rails" and I can''t even get past the very first step. I''m getting the following error: "Before updating scaffolding from new DB schema, try creating a table for your model (Product)" when I try to run "ruby script/generate scaffold Product Admin. I have a table

All, I am on Mac OS X 10.4, went through all the installation steps for mysql and ruby on rails. Now, I am getting this error when trying to start webrick or when trying to create the tables: /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.13.2/lib/active_record/ connection_adapters/abstract/connection_specification.rb:73:in `establish_connection'': development database is not configured

hey guys My macbook pro 17 had to be taken back to apple beuase of a dud screen, so have had to install from macports again. When i attempt to create a mysql database with this: mysql5 -u root depot_development i get this: ERROR 2002 (HY000): Can''t connect to local MySQL server through socket ''/opt/local/var/run/mysql5/mysqld.sock'' (2) any ideas? cheers! Adam --

Hi, An absolute newbie to RoR, I''m currently going through a few of the excellent tutorials that are available on the subject. One of these includes running a script for creating a mySQL table. In the command prompt (XP), I try mysql depot_development <db/create.sql but get the following error: ''mysql'' is not recognized as an internal or external command,