I have had some issues using a blank mysql password / no password on some boxes. Not sure if it's rails or mysql, but try using a password. 
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-----Original Message-----
From: James Britt <james.britt / gmail.com>

Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2008 11:09:47 
To:ruby-talk / ruby-lang.org (ruby-talk ML)
Subject: Re: Rails - Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' ...


Jim Cochrane wrote:
> I suppose I should post this in a Rails mailing list or wiki, but the
> medium I'm used to is USENET, so I thought I'd try here first.  (I don't
> think there's a Rails newsgroup - please correct me if I'm wrong -
> and I see some Rails postings here sometimes, so I'm assuming this
> is appropriate.)
>
> I'm using the book "Ajax on Rails" to learn about Rails development and
> after following along for the first example, in chapter 2 (pg 20), I'm
> encountering the error:
>
> #28000Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: NO)

This looks like a MySQL user configuration issue.

Does user 'root' in MySQL have a password?

Have you created a better use account to use with the application DB?



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