Many thanks, that did it for me! Cheers.
On Jun 27, 7:19 am, "Simon Macneall" <macne...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I assume you have set up your database.yml file correctly, then just > create the db manually using using the webpanel, and then run rake > db:migrate to create all your tables. > > Simon > > On Sat, 27 Jun 2009 06:55:54 +0800, wolfbyt...@gmail.com > > <wolfbyt...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > I've done a bit of web development work, but decided to try something > > new after I got into a fight with PHP over regular expressions. I > > figured I'd have nothing to do by trying out Rails, so here I am. > > > I'm following along the getting started guide: > >http://guides.rubyonrails.org/getting_started.html > > > However, I just hit my first snag. "rake db:create" is returning the > > error "Couldn't create the database for... etc.". I get the > > impression that this will attempt to create the database, which would > > explain the error: With my webhost, the database users aren't allowed > > to create new databases; that needs to be done from the web panel. > > > How can I -connect- to a (remote) database and build the needed > > tables, but not -create- an entirely new database? Thanks, I > > appreciate it. > > > Eric --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
