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author | Gaurish Sharma <contact@gaurishsharma.com> | 2012-12-10 01:22:25 +0530 |
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committer | Gaurish Sharma <contact@gaurishsharma.com> | 2012-12-10 01:22:25 +0530 |
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Add quotes to Numeric Passwords to force string(MySql)
If you have numeric password for your database, like below:
```yaml
development:
adapter: mysql2
encoding: utf8
database: myblog_development
pool: 5
username: root
password: 123456
```
you will get the following obscure error with unhelpful stack-trace
```shell
$ c
/home/gaurish/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p286-perf/gems/mysql2-0.3.11/lib/mysql2/client.rb:44:in `connect': can't convert Fixnum into String (TypeError)
from /home/gaurish/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p286-perf/gems/mysql2-0.3.11/lib/mysql2/client.rb:44:in `initialize'
from /home/gaurish/code/repo/rails/activerecord/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/mysql2_adapter.rb:16:in `new'
from /home/gaurish/code/repo/rails/activerecord/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/mysql2_adapter.rb:16:in `mysql2_connection'
from /home/gaurish/code/repo/rails/activerecord/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/abstract/connection_pool.rb:444:in `new_connection'
from /home/gaurish/code/repo/rails/activerecord/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/abstract/connection_pool.rb:454:in `checkout_new_connection'
from /home/gaurish/code/repo/rails/activerecord/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/abstract/connection_pool.rb:425:in `acquire_connection'
from /home/gaurish/code/repo/rails/activerecord/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/abstract/connection_pool.rb:362:in `block in checkout'
from /home/gaurish/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p286-perf/lib/ruby/1.9.1/monitor.rb:211:in `mon_synchronize'
from /home/gaurish/code/repo/rails/activerecord/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/abstract/connection_pool.rb:361:in `checkout'
from /home/gaurish/code/repo/rails/activerecord/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/abstract/connection_pool.rb:271:in `block in connection'
from /home/gaurish/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p286-perf/lib/ruby/1.9.1/monitor.rb:211:in `mon_synchronize'
from /home/gaurish/code/repo/rails/activerecord/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/abstract/connection_pool.rb:270:in `connection'
from /home/gaurish/code/repo/rails/activerecord/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/abstract/connection_pool.rb:545:in `retrieve_connection'
from /home/gaurish/code/repo/rails/activerecord/lib/active_record/connection_handling.rb:79:in `retrieve_connection'
from /home/gaurish/code/repo/rails/activerecord/lib/active_record/connection_handling.rb:53:in `connection'
from /home/gaurish/code/repo/rails/activerecord/lib/active_record/railtie.rb:153:in `block in <class:Railtie>'
from /home/gaurish/code/repo/rails/railties/lib/rails/initializable.rb:30:in `instance_exec'
from /home/gaurish/code/repo/rails/railties/lib/rails/initializable.rb:30:in `run'
from /home/gaurish/code/repo/rails/railties/lib/rails/initializable.rb:55:in `block in run_initializers'
from /home/gaurish/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p286-perf/lib/ruby/1.9.1/tsort.rb:150:in `block in tsort_each'
from /home/gaurish/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p286-perf/lib/ruby/1.9.1/tsort.rb:183:in `block (2 levels) in each_strongly_connected_component'
from /home/gaurish/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p286-perf/lib/ruby/1.9.1/tsort.rb:219:in `each_strongly_connected_component_from'
from /home/gaurish/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p286-perf/lib/ruby/1.9.1/tsort.rb:182:in `block in each_strongly_connected_component'
from /home/gaurish/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p286-perf/lib/ruby/1.9.1/tsort.rb:180:in `each'
from /home/gaurish/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p286-perf/lib/ruby/1.9.1/tsort.rb:180:in `each_strongly_connected_component'
from /home/gaurish/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p286-perf/lib/ruby/1.9.1/tsort.rb:148:in `tsort_each'
from /home/gaurish/code/repo/rails/railties/lib/rails/initializable.rb:54:in `run_initializers'
from /home/gaurish/code/repo/rails/railties/lib/rails/application.rb:216:in `initialize!'
from /home/gaurish/code/repo/rails/railties/lib/rails/railtie/configurable.rb:30:in `method_missing'
from /tmp/numericpass/config/environment.rb:5:in `<top (required)>'
from /home/gaurish/code/repo/rails/railties/lib/rails/application.rb:190:in `require'
from /home/gaurish/code/repo/rails/railties/lib/rails/application.rb:190:in `require_environment!'
from /home/gaurish/code/repo/rails/railties/lib/rails/commands.rb:70:in `<top (required)>'
from script/rails:6:in `require'
from script/rails:6:in `<main>'
```
Looking [Can't convert fixnum to string during rake db:create](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3765834/cant-convert-fixnum-to-string-during-rake-dbcreate), it seems lot of people have faced the same error.
so adding a note informing about numeric passwords seems like a good idea
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