-you want to do something like this
+Creating database
+===================
+
+OSM server uses a database with the following name:
+
+openstreetmap
+
+You may create it with your preferable client or run next (linux) command:
+
+$ mysqladmin -u <uid> -p create openstreetmap
+
+(change <uid> with appropriate username of administrative user eg. root )
+
+Creating user, password, and access rights
+============================================
+
+$ mysql -u <uid> -p
+
+(change <uid> with appropriate username of administrative user eg. root )
-$ su
-# mysqladmin create openstreetmap
-# mysql
> grant all privileges on openstreetmap.* to 'openstreetmap'@'localhost' identified by 'openstreetmap';
> flush privileges;
> exit
-# exit
-$ mysql openstreetmap -u openstreetmap -p < db/create_database.sql
-(the last line above gets you to what the server has right now)
+Creating database skeleton tables
+===================================
+
+Run this command from the root of your rails direcotry:
-$ mysql openstreetmap -u openstreetmap -p < db/migrate.sql
+$ rake db:migrate
-(this line gets you to where its going to be when we go live with rails)
+This will create the db for you