Can't convert fixnum to string during rake db:create

Question

Just created a new blog app using rails 3.0

my model is simple:

class Post < ActiveRecord::Base
  has_many :comments
end

class Comment < ActiveRecord::Base
  belongs_to :post
end

I used the commands: rails generate scaffold post title:string body:text etc.

to create these files.

Now I wanted to generated the db using:

rake db:create

I got the error:

rake aborted!
can't convert Fixnum into String

Any ideas what the issue can be?

I'm following this tutorial: http://sixrevisions.com/web-development/how-to-create-a-blog-from-scratch-using-ruby-on-rails/

Here is the trace:

** Invoke db:create (first_time)
** Invoke db:load_config (first_time)
** Invoke rails_env (first_time)
** Execute rails_env
** Execute db:load_config
** Execute db:create
rake aborted!
can't convert Fixnum into String
/Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/mysql2-0.2.4/lib/mysql2/client.rb:36:in `connect'
/Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/mysql2-0.2.4/lib/mysql2/client.rb:36:in `initialize'
/Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/mysql2-0.2.4/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/mysql2_adapter.rb:14:in `new'
/Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/mysql2-0.2.4/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/mysql2_adapter.rb:14:in `mysql2_connection'
/Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-3.0.0/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/abstract/connection_pool.rb:230:in `send'
/Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-3.0.0/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/abstract/connection_pool.rb:230:in `new_connection'
/Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-3.0.0/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/abstract/connection_pool.rb:238:in `checkout_new_connection'
/Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-3.0.0/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/abstract/connection_pool.rb:194:in `checkout'
/Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-3.0.0/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/abstract/connection_pool.rb:190:in `loop'
/Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-3.0.0/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/abstract/connection_pool.rb:190:in `checkout'
/System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/monitor.rb:242:in `synchronize'
/Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-3.0.0/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/abstract/connection_pool.rb:189:in `checkout'
/Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-3.0.0/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/abstract/connection_pool.rb:96:in `connection'
/Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-3.0.0/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/abstract/connection_pool.rb:318:in `retrieve_connection'
/Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-3.0.0/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/abstract/connection_specification.rb:97:in `retrieve_connection'
/Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-3.0.0/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/abstract/connection_specification.rb:89:in `connection'
/Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-3.0.0/lib/active_record/railties/databases.rake:68:in `create_database'
/Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-3.0.0/lib/active_record/railties/databases.rake:33
/Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.7/lib/rake.rb:636:in `call'
/Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.7/lib/rake.rb:636:in `execute'
/Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.7/lib/rake.rb:631:in `each'
/Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.7/lib/rake.rb:631:in `execute'
/Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.7/lib/rake.rb:597:in `invoke_with_call_chain'
/System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/monitor.rb:242:in `synchronize'
/Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.7/lib/rake.rb:590:in `invoke_with_call_chain'
/Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.7/lib/rake.rb:583:in `invoke'
/Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.7/lib/rake.rb:2051:in `invoke_task'
/Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.7/lib/rake.rb:2029:in `top_level'
/Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.7/lib/rake.rb:2029:in `each'
/Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.7/lib/rake.rb:2029:in `top_level'
/Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.7/lib/rake.rb:2068:in `standard_exception_handling'
/Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.7/lib/rake.rb:2023:in `top_level'
/Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.7/lib/rake.rb:2001:in `run'
/Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.7/lib/rake.rb:2068:in `standard_exception_handling'
/Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.7/lib/rake.rb:1998:in `run'
/Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.7/bin/rake:31
/usr/bin/rake:19:in `load'
/usr/bin/rake:19

database.yaml:

# MySQL.  Versions 4.1 and 5.0 are recommended.
#
# Install the MySQL driver:
#   gem install mysql2
#
# And be sure to use new-style password hashing:
#   http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/old-client.html
development:
  adapter: mysql2
  encoding: utf8
  reconnect: false
  database: myblog_development
  pool: 5
  username: root
  password: 123
  socket: /tmp/mysql.sock

# Warning: The database defined as "test" will be erased and
# re-generated from your development database when you run "rake".
# Do not set this db to the same as development or production.
test:
  adapter: mysql2
  encoding: utf8
  reconnect: false
  database: myblog_test
  pool: 5
  username: root
  password: 123
  socket: /tmp/mysql.sock

production:
  adapter: mysql2
  encoding: utf8
  reconnect: false
  database: myblog_production
  pool: 5
  username: root
  password: 123
  socket: /tmp/mysql.sock

migrations:

class CreatePosts < ActiveRecord::Migration
  def self.up
    create_table :posts do |t|
      t.string :title
      t.text :body

      t.timestamps
    end
  end

  def self.down
    drop_table :posts
  end
end

next migration:

class CreateComments < ActiveRecord::Migration
  def self.up
    create_table :comments do |t|
      t.string :name
      t.text :body
      t.references :post

      t.timestamps
    end
  end

  def self.down
    drop_table :comments
  end
end

Answer 1

The YAML parser has to guess what data type each value in your database.yml file is, without any other contextual information.

As such, it probably considers your password value of 123 to be an integer.

Trying forcing the string interpretation:

password: "123"