MYSQL Access denied ruby script in Rails app

Question

I have a Rails 4.2 application deployed to an Ubunutu 14.4 Trusty server. The issue I'm having right now is being unable to run a script that saves records for me. I get this error:

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

I've configured the production database to use username root with the right password, yet after restarting the server and trying out the new configuration I get the above error.

I'm running to script by navigating to lib/ on the server and running ruby script9000.rb. The script runs fine until it tries to save a record.

Why might this be happening?

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The script trips up at Year.find_or_create_by

  def save_record(record)
    sanitize_record(record)
    full_year = complete_year(@@record["year_number"])
    if full_year >= 2014
      year = Year.find_or_create_by(year: full_year)
      year.records.create(@@record)
    end
  end

Answer 1

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

It is MySQL error, that means that you are trying to connect to database with the user root from localhost with blank or no password. Make sure, you have user root@localhost on your mysql server or make sure to provide right password.