Hi Dean it seems that you have sqlite3-ruby installed, but not sqlite3 installed ... 'gem install sqlite3' might fix it ?
cheers Paul On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 12:49 PM, Dean Richardson <li...@ruby-forum.com>wrote: > David: > > Thanks for your help. I've followed the set-up instructions in the "BDD > in Rails" chapter successfully up to the "rake db:test:prepare" step. At > that point, I get the following error: > > rake aborted! > no such file to load -- sqlite3 > > I've attached a document containing my "gem list" output showing the > presence of the sqlite3-ruby gem and other associated dependencies. The > document also gives the content of my database.yml file for reference. > I'm using mysql for my development and production databases. > > When I try to switch my test database to mysql too, by editing the > "test:" section of database.yml, I get the following error: > > rake aborted! > Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/tmp/mysql.sock' (2) > > Both of these errors are widely-discussed on message boards, stack > overflow, etc., but none of the fixes I've found so far there seem to > help. > > Any suggestions for how to make either test database approach (sqlite3 > or mysql) work would be greatly appreciated. > > Thanks again for your help, > > Dean Richardson > > > > > > > > David Chelimsky wrote in post #960323: > > On Nov 9, 2010, at 6:38 AM, Dean Richardson wrote: > > > >>>> > >> > >> David: > >> > >> Thanks for prompting me to get the update of the book. So, if I'm not > >> quite ready to make the leap to Rails 3, am I out of luck trying to use > >> RSpec and Cucumber? Is there any intermediate strategy you can suggest? > > > > rspec-1.3 works fine with rails-2.3, and there are notes about how to > > set this up in the "BDD in Rails" chapter. > > > > The RSpec Book is more of a workflow/strategy/process book than a > > recipe/syntax book. The latter is present, but not the focus. I'd > > recommend using the versions in the book (listed in the preface) to go > > through the exercises so you can learn how to use these tools > > effectively, and then comb the interwebs for information about whatever > > syntactic differences might be missing from the book. You can also write > > to this list if you have questions about the differences between > > versions. > > > > HTH, > > David > > Attachments: > http://www.ruby-forum.com/attachment/5341/rake_db_test_prepare_problem.rtf > > > -- > Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. > _______________________________________________ > rspec-users mailing list > rspec-users@rubyforge.org > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users >
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