Chapter 4: Rails Revealed -- getting an error

[dorklogic]

Page 101. I successfully run script/console and I'm in! I am able to key 'class Story < ActiveRecord::base; end' and it returns nil, as expected. here is where I run into my error.
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>> story = Story.new
Errno::ENOENT: No such file or directory - /tmp/mysql.sock
from ./script/../config/../config/../vendor/rails/activerecord/lib/active_record/vendor/mysql.rb:107:in `initialize'
from ./script/../config/../config/../vendor/rails/activerecord/lib/active_record/vendor/mysql.rb:107:in `new'
from ./script/../config/../config/../vendor/rails/activerecord/lib/active_record/vendor/mysql.rb:107:in `real_connect'
from ./script/../config/../config/../vendor/rails/activerecord/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/mysql_adapter.rb:389:in `connect'
from ./script/../config/../config/../vendor/rails/activerecord/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/mysql_adapter.rb:152:in `initialize'
from ./script/../config/../config/../vendor/rails/activerecord/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/mysql_adapter.rb:82:in `new'
from ./script/../config/../config/../vendor/rails/activerecord/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/mysql_adapter.rb:82:in `mysql_connection'
from ./script/../config/../config/../vendor/rails/activerecord/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/abstract/connection_specification.rb:262:in `send'
from ./script/../config/../config/../vendor/rails/activerecord/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/abstract/connection_specification.rb:262:in `connection_without_query_cache='
from ./script/../config/../config/../vendor/rails/activerecord/lib/active_record/query_cache.rb:54:in `connection='
from ./script/../config/../config/../vendor/rails/activerecord/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/abstract/connection_specification.rb:230:in `retrieve_connection'
from ./script/../config/../config/../vendor/rails/activerecord/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/abstract/connection_specification.rb:78:in `connection'
from ./script/../config/../config/../vendor/rails/activerecord/lib/active_record/base.rb:760:in `columns'
from ./script/../config/../config/../vendor/rails/activerecord/lib/active_record/base.rb:2048:in `attributes_from_column_definition_without_lock'
from ./script/../config/../config/../vendor/rails/activerecord/lib/active_record/locking/optimistic.rb:45:in `attributes_from_column_definition'
from ./script/../config/../config/../vendor/rails/activerecord/lib/active_record/base.rb:1490:in `initialize_without_callbacks'
from ./script/../config/../config/../vendor/rails/activerecord/lib/active_record/callbacks.rb:225:in `initialize'
from (irb):3:in `new'

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Help please :-(

[XMG-Eric]

Try setting the socket in your config/database.yml file to the location of your MySQL socket using :socket.

Let me know if that helps.

[dorklogic]

Success!

Sorry for the newbie error