Question

I get the following error, when trying to generate an app.

I have a database.yml with my db login info, but not sure what this error is exactly. Does anyone know what it is?

I assume it is verify login to the test db.

Answer 1

Make sure that your db username and password are configured for the development environment, not just the test environment. Initial rails application setup is there.

The test database is used by tests, such as rake spec or rake test and the development database is used when you are working with rails such as rails generate or rails console.

A typical setup is below:

development:
  adapter: mysql2
  encoding: utf8
  reconnect: false
  database: foo_development
  pool: 5
  username: db_username
  password: db_password
  socket: /tmp/mysql.sock

test:
  adapter: mysql2
  encoding: utf8
  reconnect: false
  database: foo_test
  pool: 5
  username: db_username
  password: db_password
  socket: /tmp/mysql.sock