Accessing mysql thorugh ruby

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This might help:

http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/MySQL+Database+access+problem

cheers

Simon

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Heres the code:

[code]
# example of connecting to mysql

require "mysql"

begin

  dbName = "database"
  m = Mysql.new("localhost", "root", "password") # this line fails
  m.select_db(dbName)

  result = m.query("SELECT * FROM test")
  fields = result.fetch_fields
  fields.each do |field|
  puts field.name
  end
  gets
  m.close

end

[/code]

The error: "Cant connect to MySQL server on "localhost" (10061)
(MySQL::Error)

I accessed mysql through its window with the values I use in the line
that fails, so they are correct.

Any ideas?

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