Hi-

I'm attempting to get my first "hello world" rails example going using the rails' getting started guide on my OSX 10.6.3 box.

When I go to execute the first rake db:create command (I'm using mysql) I get:

simon@/Users/simon/source/rails/blog/config: rake db:create  (in /Users/simon/source/rails/blog) Couldn't create database for {"reconnect"=>false, "encoding"=>"utf8", "username"=>"root", "adapter"=>"mysql", "database"=>"blog_development", "pool"=>5, "password"=>nil, "socket"=>"/opt/local/var/run/mysql5/mysqld.sock"}, charset: utf8, collation: utf8_unicode_ci (if you set the charset manually, make sure you have a matching collation)

I found plenty of stackoverflow questions addressing this problem with the following advice:

1. Verify that user and password are correct (I'm running w/ no password for root on my dev box)

2. Verify that the socket is correct - I can cat the socket, so I assume it's correct

3. Verify that the user can create a DB (As you can see root can connect and create a this DB no problem)

   simon@/Users/simon/source/rails/blog/config: mysql -uroot -hlocalhost Welcome to the MySQL monitor. Commands end with ; or \g. Your MySQL connection id is 16 Server version: 5.1.45 Source distribution

   Type 'help;' or '\h' for help. Type '\c' to clear the current input statement.

   mysql> create database blog_development; Query OK, 1 row affected (0.00 sec)

Any idea on what might be going on here?