Well, to use a former co-workers phrase, "I've been crawling over broken glass", trying everything and seemed to have found something that worked: 1) I downloaded and installed MySQL community edition 5.5.13, even though it isn't on anyone's recommended list and 2) installed a gem for mysql-2.8.1-x86-mingw32 which I saw recommended somewhere, then 3) modified John's yml file from above to be:
development: adapter: mysql encoding: Latin1 reconnect: false database: mysql pool: 5 timeout: 5000 username: a password: a and the line: rake db:migrate finally worked and made a table with the data I had in that file. Also, I could add a couple of records via the screen from http://localhost:3000/people so I think I can make progress from here. Thanks to John and Chirag for taking the time to point me in some good directions! Barney -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
