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POWhy can't I create my database using "rake db:create"?
 

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    <p>I've recently started reading up on Rails and while getting my development environment ready on Windows, I kept running into problems. So I opted to just work on the server space I have with asmallorange.com.</p> <p>Everything went smoothly until I tried created my database.</p> <p>When running </p> <pre><code>rake db:create </code></pre> <p>I get a response saying that it could not create a database. There is no relevant error with the response and there's no errors in the log files. My PuTTY session looks like this:</p> <pre><code>[~]# cd alist [~/alist]# rake db:create (in /home/jonnie/alist) Couldn't create database for {"socket"=&gt;"/var/lib/mysql/mysqld.sock", "reconnect"=&gt;false, "encoding"=&gt;"utf8", "username"=&gt;"admin", "adapter"=&gt;"mysql", "password"=&gt;"************", "database"=&gt;"alist_development", "pool"=&gt;5}, charset: utf8, collation: utf8_general_ci (if you set the charset manually, make sure you have a matching collation) </code></pre> <p>And my database.yml file looks like this:</p> <pre><code>development: adapter: mysql encoding: utf8 reconnect: false database: alist_development pool: 5 username: admin password: ************ socket: /var/lib/mysql/mysqld.sock test: adapter: mysql encoding: utf8 reconnect: false database: alist_test pool: 5 username: admin password: ************ socket: /var/lib/mysql/mysqld.sock production: adapter: mysql encoding: utf8 reconnect: false database: alist_production pool: 5 username: admin password: ************ socket: /var/lib/mysql/mysqld.sock </code></pre> <p>I'm pretty stuck at this point, and I haven't been able to find an answer anywhere else. Anyone know what's up? Is there something I'm doing wrong or should I contact my host with the problem?</p>
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