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As this blog seems to be turning into a ‘time capsule’ of sorts, this post seems appropriate.

I’ve been having some difficulties lately.  While trying to get ruby on rails set up on this computer (running OS X 10.4.11) I’ve hit a few snags.  but first, some background.

I started into rails because I knew it was the next step i had to take.  from clarisworks (remember that?) way back when to html tables to xhtml and css, now i need to add a new layer.  i have a few things that i want to build that go beyond the interactivity that javascript can offer (college students, check back here in early september,) and rails seemed like the quickest way to get that done.

maybe i just don’t know what i’m doing, but after trying several times, i get stuck at “rake db:migrate”.  i tried reinstalling mysql and using a different server and still nothing.  all i see is the same error “Can’t connect to local MySQL server through socket ‘/tmp/mysql.sock”.  sounds simple enough, right?  it probably is, but i still can’t figure out how to make this shit work.  once i get past this, i’m going to look back and feel pretty dumb.

any suggestions?

update: problem fixed.  details here.