The other day my computer begain repeatedly giving me this MySQL error:
Your password has expired. To log in you must change it using a client that supports expired passwords.
It happened to my root account and my Devin account. I searched online quickly and found out (after more looking than I'd hoped for) how to change my password.... but the problem came back a few days later.
I've been working on a major schema refactor on a rails application recently, and time and again I've had to reset my database because of some syntax error or another in my migrations. I'm changing schemas and moving data between columns, which makes the migrations really fragile.
It's also been fun learning about the rake tools that allow you to manage database migrations. In particular, three rails commands have come in handy: