I had the same issue this morning on a fresh machine. Rather than bothering with MySQL once again (this sort of thing is a common problem) I switched to Postgres.
brew installl postgress gem install pg Then point rails to the PG server: development: adapter: postgresql On Jun 19, 8:24 am, Maze <[email protected]> wrote: > I downloaded the installer, and installed it. Still same problem :( > > On Jun 18, 8:24 pm, Leigh Daniels <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Using this installer, it took me less than 4 minutes to have a fully > > working version of MySQL 5.5.13 running on my Macbook Air with OS X 10.6.7. > > > **Leigh > > > >Have you tried the installer from MySQL? > > > > <http://www.mysql.com/downloads/mirror.php?id=402874> > > > >It includes a Prefs Panel for starting and stopping the server. I've > > >also found these to be very helpful developing RoR/MySQL apps: > > > > <http://www.sequelpro.com/> > > > <http://www.phpmyadmin.net/> > > > >**Leigh > > > >Look, I'm still a beginner with Ruby, Rails and MYSQL. All this is > > >gibberish to me at the moment. Now you either want to help me or you > > >don't. > > > >I tried examining the logs, etc.., etc... but I don't understand whats > > >wrong. I once got this to work, then I uninstalled because of some > > >other problems, and now I can't get it work anymore. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.

