The database has been initialized, so now we get down to business of defining the fields in that database and include a field that we would call a foreign key which allows the establishment of the one to many relationship between the tables. This part of the process requires quite a bit of background of database creation, manipulation and handling. It also requires knowledge regarding the workings of data types. So assuming you do not have much knowledge in such areas do some more reading to give you a better understanding of what how and why they are there. The ROR developers might say that it is very easy to do and use ROR but without the background on logic formulation, data types and manipulation as well as database handling the rest of the posts which would tackle ever hardening topics and operations would be very difficult to make sense of.

Don’t get me wrong, we just want to make life easier for you and not have you not understanding anything at all.

The next phase or step would be to create a database for the application to use. Make sure the MySql engine is running and in the command window type “mysql -u root -p” and press enter and another enter for the password when prompted for there has not been any defined password yet. You are now logged into the engine as the root user and proceed to create the database by entering the following command “create database filename_development”. Also type in “grant all on filename_development.* to ‘ODBC’@'localhost’ this tells windows to grant access to a user named ODBC so you avoid an error when you try to access the said database from the command prompt. We next tackle the creation of tables that would allow the database to store the information we send it.