Question

I’m trying to get RoR installed on my Ubuntu install and have it running with MySql. RoR and MySql have both installed fine and working but I’m having problems getting rails to work with MySql following this tutorial: http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/getting-started/installation/linux

To test your Rails installation, generate a new Rails project:

$ rails myrailsapp

If you are using MySQL, use the following command:

$ rails myrailsapp -d mysql

Now I know that you now have to type rails new [appname] not just rails [appname] to get this working once this is done and project is created its still using the sqlite3 databse so I run the next line $ rails myrailsapp -d mysql when I do this I just get a large list of text giving me various options with out changing anything.

What have I done wrong?

Answer 1

You actually want to generate the project with the -d specifier, not apply it to your project after generation. Start a new project like this:

rails new myrailsapp -d mysql