Just setup a new rails 3.1.3 app using mysql (mysql2 gem) on CentOS 5 server / apache / passenger... I have correctly setup a database and a user for that database and I have added the login and info into my database.yml file... I can generate stuff, and rake db:migrate ok but the "We're sorry, but something went wrong." message is being rendered in the browser and this message is showing up in my production.log file!
Started GET "/" for xx.xxx.xx.xxx at 2011-12-29 19:52:35 -0600
Mysql2::Error (Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: NO)):
weird, I am not using "root" as the login info in database.yml... Any suggestions?
development:
adapter: mysql2
encoding: utf8
reconnect: false
database: the_db_I_made
pool: 5
username: the_user_I_made
password: the_password
socket: /var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock
production:
adapter: mysql2
encoding: utf8
reconnect: false
database: the_db_I_made
pool: 5
username: the_user_I_made
password: the_password
socket: /var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock
Bunch of questions / suggestions:
Can you connect to the database using the terminal?
mysql -u root -p
Also, have you tried this on development mode? If so, please share the results.
Try removing
socket: /var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock
Is the gem installation correct?
gem check mysql2
EDIT:
There is a lot of difference in development and production mode ( including but not limited to, environment variables like the database connection string, asset pre-compilation, different level of logging, custom debug info on error pages )
** Embarrassing!!**
You have not included the "host" property in your config!
Try this:
production:
adapter: mysql2
encoding: utf8
reconnect: false
host: your_host #<----- normally localhost
database: the_db_I_made
pool: 5
username: the_user_I_made
password: the_password
socket: /var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock
Ok, I guess this is all part of my learning curve :)
What it ended up being was this: The gem for passenger that I installed originally was version 3.0.9, I did a gem update --system and that installed version 3.0.11. So the server thought it was using version 3.0.11 and I was still pointing to libraries for 3.0.9 in my rails_server.conf file. I found how to upgrade on http://blog.phusion.nl/
Did you create the database "the_db_I_made"?
First create it, then only run it, else it will show this error continuously.
Now try to tun it.
For Me It was giving error because of no database. So i created one Using :
$ rake db:create
And the problem was solved :D