>>"Can you confirm your connecting to the same database from the rails >>app and from psql?"
I started the webrick server in /home/work/timecard so it must be pointing to the rails timecard app. and the database is specified in database.yml, beyond that how do I determine the database I am using? >>"Are you sure the index page doesn't have the data harcoded somewhere?" I have opened all of the standard .html.erb files in the app/views/ timeperiods directory and verified there is nothing there beyond the rails defaults. >>"Have you tried copying the database with a different name and change >>your app to use the new database? Not a bad idea so I used psql to clone the database and edited database.yml in rails to refer to the new database. psql still shows only 2 records. After restarting the rails server then navigating to the url I now get "Fatal: database 'mymystery' does not exist". Edited database.yml back to timecard_development, restarted the rails server, and the url works again but shows all 6 records. Don't understand why rails couldn't find my new database 'mymystery'. It seems clear we are not looking at the same data. I listed all databases on my (VMWhere virtual) machine, opened and queried them all with psql, and none of them have the records I added through the rails interface. >>"Do you have your tests in place?" Actually, no. I guess I'm a slow learner because I do best focusing on one thing at a time, and for now I want to focus Rails. I will add what is needed for TDD after I have reached some familiarty with Rails. Thanks for looking at my problem, if you think of anything else to try please comment. --Fred -- 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.
