follow the screencasts http://railscasts.com/episodes/342-migrating-to-postgresql?autoplay=true
up to the steps of "rake db:create:all" and get error:
could not connect to server: No such file or directory Is the server
running locally and accepting connections on Unix domain socket
"/tmp/.s.PGSQL.5432"?
refer the question on Rails: rake db:create:all fails to connect to PostgreSQL database
but still unable to resolve it. Not sure what is the problem.
[database.yml]
development:
adapter: postgresql
encoding: unicode
database: store_development
pool: 5
username: amysukumunu
password:
test:
adapter: postgresql
encoding: unicode
database: store_test
pool: 5
username: amysukumunu
password:
[update2]
okay, This is what you should do:
- the unix socket should be at
/var/pgsql_socket
(as per the plist image) where as rails is trying to find the socket file in /tmp
. I believe this is the reason for error. so Edit your database.yml
& explicitly add socket location. so your final database.yml should look like this. change the file location for your unix socket location. try to connection now?
2) If it still doesn't connect. verify that postgres server is actually running
$ netstat -a | grep postgre
if its running, try connecting to it from terminal using psql
command. incase its, not running. try starting it manually
pg_ctl -D /usr/local/var/postgres -l /usr/local/var/postgres/server.log start
If it still doesn't start,
Are there any error messages in the server.log? If yes do post them here.
Good luck!
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