Making my MySQL database visible to Views, some problems

I've been following along with the Views 3 help files, but I'm a bit stuck on what else I need to add to my module to make it visible to Views so I can use Views to display data in my external database.

Of course my real database has a lot more useful fields, but I was having trouble getting that to display--so I made this test database instead as a "hello world" before I try something more complex. Here's the schema.

database name = other

create table strings (
id int primary key auto_increment,
mystring varchar(50)
);

Here's my settings.php to include the database:

$databases = array (
  'default' => 
  array (
    'default' => 
    array (
      'database' => 'drupal',
      'username' => 'drupal_user',
      'password' => 'my_other_pass',
      'host' => 'localhost',
      'port' => '',
      'driver' => 'mysql',
      'prefix' => '',
    ),
	
	array (
        'database' => 'other',
        'username' => 'my_user',
        'password' => 'my_pass',
        'host' => 'localhost',
        'port' => '',
        'driver' => 'mysql',
        'prefix' => '',
    ),
  ),
);

and here's my test.views.inc file for my custom module named test (which is enabled) that describes to Drupal what the table structure of mystrings looks like.

//useful site explaining all of this: http://groups.drupal.org/node/17236
function test_views_data() {
    $data = array(
        'strings' => array(
            'table' => array(
                'group' => t('views test'),
                
                'base' => array(
                    'field' => 'id',
                    'title' => t("I guess node"),
                    'help' => t("help for I guess node I guess"),
                    'weight' => -10,
                    'database' => 'others',
                ),
            ),
            
            'id' => array(
                'title' => t('id'),
                /*'field' => array(
                    'handler' => 'views_handler_field_node',
                    'click sortable' => TRUE,
                ),*/
                'relationship' => array(
                    'label' => t("node I think"),
                    'base' => 'node',
                    'base_field => 'id',
                ),
                /*'argument' => array(
                    'handler' => 'view_handler_argument_node_nid',
                    'name field' => 'id for strings',
                    'numeric' => TRUE,
                    'validate type' => 'nid',
                ),*/
                
                /*'filter' => array(
                    'handler' => 'views_handler_filter_numeric',
                ),*/
                
                /*'sort' => array(
                    'handler' => 'views_handler_sort',
                ),*/
            ),
            
            'mystring' => array(
                'title' => t('mystring'),
                'field' => array(
                    'handler' => 'views_handler_field',
                    'click sortable' => TRUE,
                ),
                'filter' => array(
                    'handler' => 'views_handler_filter_string',
                ),
                'argument' => array(
                    'handler' => 'views_handler_argument_string',
                ),
                'sort' => array(
                    'handler' => 'views_handler_sort',
                ),
            ),
        ),
    );
    
    return $data;
}

Here's the current problem: When I try and make a new view I don't see any of this information or anything related to my database and table mystrings. Does anybody know what I'm doing wrong in my custom module code / view usage? Any help is much appreciated!