rails with postgresql

Hi this is my first time for a few things. I am trying to get rails working with postgres-9.0.1, I have never used postgres before. I do know the server is listening on localhost:5432 as I am able to connect to it using pgadmin3 and see the 2 databases on it.

I have 'pg' gem installed my database.yml looks like this

development:   adapter: postgresql   encoding: unicode   database: test   pool: 5   username:   password:

however i am getting the following migrate error

yadav@expression:$ rake db:migrate --trace (in /home/yadav/dev/rails/tmp/testapp) ** Invoke db:migrate (first_time) ** Invoke environment (first_time) ** Execute environment ** Execute db:migrate rake aborted! could not connect to server: No such file or directory         Is the server running locally and accepting         connections on Unix domain socket "/var/run/postgresql/.s.PGSQL. 5432"?

Is the server running locally and accepting connections on that unix domain socket? You don't say that it is...

Or if you don't want to tweak that, change your database.yml and add a "host: localhost" entry.

-philip

Hi this is my first time for a few things. I am trying to get rails

working with postgres-9.0.1, I have never used postgres before. I do

know the server is listening on localhost:5432 as I am able to connect

to it using pgadmin3 and see the 2 databases on it.

I have ‘pg’ gem installed

my database.yml looks like this

development:

adapter: postgresql

encoding: unicode

database: test

pool: 5

username:

password:

however i am getting the following migrate error

yadav@expression:$ rake db:migrate --trace

(in /home/yadav/dev/rails/tmp/testapp)

** Invoke db:migrate (first_time)

** Invoke environment (first_time)

** Execute environment

** Execute db:migrate

rake aborted!

could not connect to server: No such file or directory

    Is the server running locally and accepting

    connections on Unix domain socket "/var/run/postgresql/.s.PGSQL.

5432"?

It might help if you can post your database.yml… also, have you created your databases (rake db:create:all)?

Hi Philip,

that was it, not sure (yet) how to setup the server to listen on the unix domain socket, but adding the host entry made the connection possible.

I can now add and view records interactively from the rails console!

Thanks,

Hi David,

thanks for the tip, I got it working, just had to add "host: localhost" as Philip pointed out.

Kind Regards, Rajinder Yadav

Hi this is my first time for a few things. I am trying to get rails

working with postgres-9.0.1, I have never used postgres before. I do

know the server is listening on localhost:5432 as I am able to connect

to it using pgadmin3 and see the 2 databases on it.

I have ‘pg’ gem installed

my database.yml looks like this

development:

adapter: postgresql

encoding: unicode

database: test

pool: 5

username:

password:

however i am getting the following migrate error

yadav@expression:$ rake db:migrate --trace

(in /home/yadav/dev/rails/tmp/testapp)

** Invoke db:migrate (first_time)

** Invoke environment (first_time)

** Execute environment

** Execute db:migrate

rake aborted!

could not connect to server: No such file or directory

   Is the server running locally and accepting
   connections on Unix domain socket "/var/run/postgresql/.s.PGSQL.

5432"?

It might help if you can post your database.yml… also, have you created

your databases (rake db:create:all)?

Hi David,

thanks for the tip, I got it working, just had to add "host:

localhost" as Philip pointed out.

Cool… hey if you have a chance let me know if you can connect to the db using: “rails dbconsole”… I have never been successful doing this and I just go to the postgresql command line but would be curious if it works for you… I can connect no problem to the rails console, but for whatever reason I get “Couldn’t find database client: psql. Check your $PATH and try again.” when I try rails dbconsole.

Hi David,

'rails dbconsole' works for me. Are you on Linux? if so what do you get when you do a 'which psql', do you get the right path?

I built postgresql-9.0.1 from source, and the make install script puts psql under /usr/local/pgsql/bin/psql

What I ended up doing instead of adding to the $PATH, was creating a symbolic link under /usr/local/bin

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 25 2010-12-07 19:50 psql -> /usr/local/pgsql/bin/psql

I am guessing, either you need to update your $PATH variable or use a sym-link like me and things should work fine.

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 >


 >>

 >> Hi this is my first time for a few things. I am trying to get rails

 >> working with postgres-9.0.1, I have never used postgres before. I do

 >> know the server is listening on localhost:5432 as I am able to

connect

 >> to it using pgadmin3 and see the 2 databases on it.

 >>

 >> I have 'pg' gem installed

 >> my database.yml looks like this

 >>

 >> development:

 >>  adapter: postgresql

 >>  encoding: unicode

 >>  database: test

 >>  pool: 5

 >>  username:

 >>  password:

 >>

 >> however i am getting the following migrate error

 >>

 >> yadav@expression:$ rake db:migrate --trace

 >> (in /home/yadav/dev/rails/tmp/testapp)

 >> ** Invoke db:migrate (first_time)

 >> ** Invoke environment (first_time)

 >> ** Execute environment

 >> ** Execute db:migrate

 >> rake aborted!

 >> could not connect to server: No such file or directory

 >>        Is the server running locally and accepting

 >>        connections on Unix domain socket

"/var/run/postgresql/.s.PGSQL.

 >> 5432"?

 >

 > It might help if you can post your database.yml.... also, have

you created

 > your databases (rake db:create:all)?

 >



Hi David,



thanks for the tip, I got it working, just had to add "host:

localhost" as Philip pointed out.

Cool… hey if you have a chance let me know if you can connect to the

db using: “rails dbconsole”… I have never been successful doing this

and I just go to the postgresql command line but would be curious if it

works for you… I can connect no problem to the rails console, but for

whatever reason I get "Couldn’t find database client: psql. Check your

$PATH and try again." when I try rails dbconsole.

Hi David,

‘rails dbconsole’ works for me. Are you on Linux? if so what do you get when you do a ‘which psql’, do you get the right path?

Well, I am on a Mac, and interesting, when I ask for ‘which psql’ it does not return anything. And if I type psql into the terminal I get “command not found”. So must be that I need to assign the path… I have just been lazy. I just rebuilt my computer so I’ll have a look at doing this.

:migrate

rake aborted! could not connect to server: No such file or directory         Is the server running locally and accepting         connections on Unix domain socket "/var/run/postgresql/.s.PGSQL. 5432"?

It is looking for the domain socket in /var/run/postgresql/.s.PGSQL.5432.

Go in /var/run/postgresql/ and ln -s wherever/your/domain/socket/is/.s.PGSQL.5432 .

You can find the socket with a global search, like

find / -name .s.PGSQL.\*

The above will fix the issue, but a more definitive solution would be to point rails to the right location of the domain socket (I am just looking how to do it myself!)

Philip Hallstrom wrote in post #967046:

By default PostgreSQL listens on a local domain socket for security reasons, however, by adding the host: localhost line you are telling the PostgreSQL driver that you want to use TCP networking, and so it switches to TCP/IP connections on port 5432.

The fact that use use localhost to connect to the local machine is irrelevant you can put any IP address there to connect to a PostgreSQL instance anywhere on the Internet