title: Error when trying to create database with Rails, rake db:create
body: <p>I'm using Ruby1.9 and Rails 2.3.4 and I have mysql-ruby (2.8.1) gem installed.</p>
  
  <p>when I try rake db:create I get the following</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>Couldn't create database for
    {"adapter"=>"mysql",
    "database"=>"war_development",
    "username"=>"root", "password"=>nil,
    "host"=>"localhost"}, charset: utf8,
    collation: utf8_unicode_ci (if you set
    the charset manually, make sure you
    have a matching collation)</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>My database.yml has the following for development</p>
  
  <pre><code>development:
    adapter: mysql
    database: war_development
    username: root
    password: 
    host: localhost
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Any ideas what's going wrong?</p>
  
  <p>Thanks,</p>
  
  <p>Tam</p>