Rails and Mysql2 Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: NO)

Question

I am somewhat new to Rails, and much of my experience involves me feeling out how to work out the problem so I apologize in advance if I have missed and obvious solution. I run a Windows machine.

I am creating a log-in and registration using mysql2. MySQL installer has already been used to install the server, workbench, etc. (I configured the root password as password) and I have already installed the mysql2 gem.

The rails was bundled successfully but when I entered rake db:create, the error Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: NO) occurred.

Rails then prompted me for my password, I entered it but the error occurred again. After entering my password the second time, it seemed as if it worked fine until I tried to do a rails db:migrate wherein the error appeared again making it not possible to migrate.

This confuses me because in the MySQL query, I have my password set as the same one I entered. I tried giving the 'root' user all the schema privileges, but that made no difference. Please tell me how to solve this problem and thank you.

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Answer 1

for me helped

$ mysql -u root -p

mysql> SET PASSWORD FOR 'root'@'localhost' = PASSWORD('mypassword')

and in databse.yml

development:
adapter: mysql2
database: mydb
host: localhost
username: root
password: "mypassword" #I had an empty string here before

thanks to @spongezh22