error accessing the project - while trying to go through Lynda.com tutorial for rails 4.0

[Michael Dowell]

Hi everyone,

I'm new to rails and new to this group.

I've been going through Lynda.com tutorials and I got an error. 

I was hoping somebody could help me out :)

Here are the steps I've taken:
1) rails new simple_cms -d mysql
2) cd simple_cms
3) bundle install

4) rails s
5) but when I check the localhost in the browser at http://localhost:3000/

I get the following error message:

Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/tmp/mysql.sock' (2)

Unfortunately, this isn't covered in the Lynda.com tutorial and I can't find anything useful on stack overflow, etc.

Your help to fix this problem would be greatly appreciated :)

Thanks,
Michael

[Ganesh Ranganathan]

On Sun, Dec 14, 2014 at 2:00 AM, Michael Dowell <moodo...@gmail.com> wrote:

Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/tmp/mysql.sock' (2)

​Is mysql installed on the machine?​

[Hassan Schroeder]

On Sat, Dec 13, 2014 at 12:30 PM, Michael Dowell <moodo...@gmail.com> wrote:

> 1) rails new simple_cms -d mysql

You selected MySQL as your database server, so

> Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/tmp/mysql.sock' (2)

that means that you have to

1) have the MySQL server installed on your system
2) have it configured to be accessed via socket '/tmp/mysql.sock'
3) have it running

At least one of those three is apparently not the case :-)

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[Michael Dowell]

Thanks for the help! It is greatly appreciated.

I spoke with the person who was helping me to set up the rails environment.

He said that mysql had already been installed.

So I typed this command into terminal in order to start mysql:

mysql.server start

____

Then I got another error:
Unknown database 'simple_cms_development'

this was resolved by typing the following into terminal:
bin/rake db:create db:migrate

The problem is resolved. Now I am able to successfully move forward with the class.

Thanks again
-Michael