Question

require 'rubygems'
require 'active_record'

ActiveRecord::Base.establish_connection(
  :adapter => 'mysql2',
  :database => 'vft',
  :user => 'vft',
  :password => 'vft_password'
)

class Attachment < ActiveRecord::Base
end

Attachment.all

This code throws Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: YES) (Mysql::Error) with both mysql and mysql2 gems. The vft user is real and works with vft database through phpmyadmin or console. Here is my environment:

Debian Squeeze,
Rails 3.2,
RVM Ruby 1.9.3

Same code works good on my local PC(Ubuntu), the problem occurs only on remote VDS…

Answer 1

I guess you should replace :user with :username.