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…application generator in the "Getting Started" guide
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 Change the username and password in the +development+ section as appropriate.
 
+TIP: You don't have to update the database configurations manually. If you had a look at the options of application generator, you have seen that one of them is named <tt>--database</tt>. It lets you choose an adapter for couple of most used relational databases. You can even run the generator repeatedly: <tt>cd .. && rails new blog --database=mysql</tt>. When you confirm the overwriting of the +config/database.yml+ file, your application will be configured for MySQL instead of SQLite.
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 h4. Creating the Database
 
 Now that you have your database configured, it's time to have Rails create an empty database for you. You can do this by running a rake command: