Database setup

[harman052]

I was trying to install Bookyt by following your INSTALL file. After database initialize, I didn't find any step to create tables in database. I found db/schema.rb file but I don't know how to use it with MySQL.

Developers are requested to look into the issue ASAP.

[huerlisi]

Hi there

Did the 'bundle exec rake db:setup' command work? If yes, the database is initialized and tables are created.

If not, here's some background: 'rake db:setup' does create the mysql databases according to 'database.yml' you created out of 'database.yml.example'. It should ask you for the root password for your mysql server to create the databases. This function is provided by Rails and we just use that for Bookyt. It does not always work if there's more than one database is configured in database.yml (like production, test, development) with the same username.

So here's a recipe that should probably get you a working DB setup if you used a more or less verbatim copy of database.yml.example:

• Drop the databases that got created: mysqladmin -u root -p drop bookyt_production; mysqladmin -u root -p drop bookyt_development
• Change database.yml: remove the section for 'production', change the username value for test to bookyt_test, set some passwords
• Run bundle exec rake db:setup and enter your DB root password when you're asked (you'll be asked twice).

It that fails, please post the output of the last step here, preferable using a gist.

Cheers
Simon

[harman052]

Please check the following gist to look into the problem.
https://gist.github.com/harman052/5648734

Harman

[huerlisi]

(Did comment on the gist long time ago, but I'll re-post here as I'm not sure it reached you, @harman052)

You need to keep both a test and a development section. They should both have a different user name and database name to get db:create (which is called by db:setup) working properly.

The reason there are no tables in the test db is that it failed to do the db:create properly. db:setup actually calls the following tasks: db:create (create databases), db:schema:load (to build the tables), and db:seed (to add some seed data from db/seeds.rb. So when db:create fails (because there is no development section), the other tasks are not run.

[huerlisi]

@harman052 okay to close? Or do you need some support?

[harman052]

On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 12:44 AM, Simon Hürlimann
notifications@github.comwrote:

@harman052 https://github.com/harman052 okay to close? Or do you need
some support?

Thanks for your assistance. But actually I am busy with my work so is
unable to act upon your recent emails. You can close but I will only be

able to check it after September.

Harmanpreet Singh
Blog: http://singhharman.wordpress.com/