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Article:		Rolling with Ruby on Rails
Subject:		Login to MySQL
Date:		2005-09-09 12:52:55
From:		Norb_Eckert
Hi, I cannot log into the database as per your steps on the 2nd page of the article. I have installed MySql with the defaults and unchecked the security piece but I am uncertain what to enter in the field for the MySQL-Front dialog box with the "General", "Connection", and "Login" tabs. Can you be more specific about the data required in the fields located there? Thanks, Norb

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• Login to MySQL
  2005-09-09 15:37:50  Curt Hibbs | [View]
  
  
  In the general tab you just make up a name for the database connection. This mostly matters for people who connect to multiple databases. Make something up.
  
  In the connection tab use Server=localhost, port=3306, connection-type=direct. The fields should have defaulted to this (except, perhaps, the server field).
  
  In the login tab, use user=root and leave the password empty, unless you assigned a root password when you installed MySQL. Previously, you had to leave the password blank, but Rails now supports the new MySQL authentication scheme so you *can* use a pssword now. If you check the "Save Password" box it won't ask you for the password everytime. Just leave the database field empty.
  
  That should do it.