ruby/mysql mysql_adapter.rb:505:in 'real_connect': cant convert String to Integer

Question

I came in this morning, fired up my app in the same way as usual, and started getting this error. Since then, I have been down every road I can conceive - to the point of removing and reinstalling every piece of ruby/rails software on my machine, including mysql. I have stripped my application down to just the following.

require 'rubygems'
require 'active_record'

class Job < ActiveRecord::Base

end

ActiveRecord::Base.establish_connection(
    :adapter     => "mysql",
    :host        => "192.168.254.22",  (I've also tried 127.0.0.1)
    :port        => "3306",
    :database    => "databasethingie",
    :username    => "root",
    :password    => "rootpassword"
)

job = Job.find(:first) This is on a windows box running instant rails 2.0.

I still get the errors:

c:/InstantRails/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.1.0/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/mysql_adapter.rb:505:in `real_connect': can't convert String into Integer (TypeError)
        from c:/InstantRails/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.1.0/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/mysql_adapter.rb:505:in `connect'
        from c:/InstantRails/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.1.0/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/mysql_adapter.rb:183:in `initialize'
        from c:/InstantRails/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.1.0/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/mysql_adapter.rb:88:in `new'
        from c:/InstantRails/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.1.0/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/mysql_adapter.rb:88:in `mysql_connection'
        from c:/InstantRails/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.1.0/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/abstract/connection_specification.rb:292:in `send'
        from c:/InstantRails/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.1.0/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/abstract/connection_specification.rb:292:in `connection='
        from c:/InstantRails/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.1.0/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/abstract/connection_specification.rb:260:in `retrieve_connection'
        from c:/InstantRails/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.1.0/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/abstract/connection_specification.rb:78:in `connection'
        from c:/InstantRails/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.1.0/lib/active_record/base.rb:2693:in `quoted_table_name'
        from c:/InstantRails/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.1.0/lib/active_record/base.rb:1469:in `construct_finder_sql'
        from c:/InstantRails/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.1.0/lib/active_record/base.rb:1341:in `find_every'
        from c:/InstantRails/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.1.0/lib/active_record/base.rb:1303:in `find_initial'
        from c:/InstantRails/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.1.0/lib/active_record/base.rb:534:in `find'
        from tmp.rb:17

I've seen posts about this that refer to a bug that was fixed way back in 1.5.2 days, but I'm up-to-date. 2.1.2, etc. What is going on here? I had wondered if this was related to recent changes to the database configuration (granting full rights to root) but the reinstall would seem to prove otherwise.

Answer 1

Did you try:

:port => 3306

Answer 2

Okay, how the hell did you spot that? That line had not changed in about 6 weeks - I've double-checked. Why would this have suddenly become a problem?

Answer 3

Same thing here, thx for the solution, I had a hunch it would be my sql port but dismissed the idea because that piece of code used to work fine. The thing that changed however is that I moved to the mysql gem instead of the mysql code that used to ship with rails (not anymore since 2.2)