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Ruby ActiveRecord Basics Migrations and Relationships Migrations

Posted by Adam Zuckerberg
Adam Zuckerberg
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rake db:create fails

I couldn't get "rails new biller -d mysql" to work so I discovered that I needed to install mysql with homebrew (i wish this was included in the video)

Now I can't get "rake db:create" to work. :( It leads to:

Couldn't create database for {"adapter"=>"mysql2", "encoding"=>"utf8", "pool"=>5, "username"=>"root", "password"=>nil, "host"=>"localhost", "database"=>"biller_development"}, {:charset=>"utf8", :collation=>"utf8_unicode_ci"} (If you set the charset manually, make sure you have a matching collation) Couldn't create database for {"adapter"=>"mysql2", "encoding"=>"utf8", "pool"=>5, "username"=>"root", "password"=>nil, "host"=>"localhost", "database"=>"biller_test"}, {:charset=>"utf8", :collation=>"utf8_unicode_ci"} (If you set the charset manually, make sure you have a matching collation)

???

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