My databases.yml makes no mention of root and in my dev environment everything works fine, however following a deployment with Capistrano about an hour ago, I get the following error:
PGError in HomeController#index
FATAL: role "root" does not exist
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.0.2/lib/active_record/ connection_adapters/postgresql_adapter.rb:713:in `connect' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.0.2/lib/active_record/ connection_adapters/postgresql_adapter.rb:713:in `connect' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.0.2/lib/active_record/ connection_adapters/postgresql_adapter.rb:237:in `initialize' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.0.2/lib/active_record/ connection_adapters/postgresql_adapter.rb:23:in `new' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.0.2/lib/active_record/ connection_adapters/postgresql_adapter.rb:23:in `postgresql_connection' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.0.2/lib/active_record/ connection_adapters/abstract/connection_specification.rb:291:in `send' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.0.2/lib/active_record/ connection_adapters/abstract/connection_specification.rb:291:in `connection=' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.0.2/lib/active_record/ connection_adapters/abstract/connection_specification.rb:259:in `retrieve_connection' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.0.2/lib/active_record/ connection_adapters/abstract/connection_specification.rb:78:in `connection' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.0.2/lib/active_record/ query_cache.rb:8:in `cache' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-2.0.2/lib/action_controller/ caching.rb:677:in `perform_action' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-2.0.2/lib/action_controller/ base.rb:524:in `send' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-2.0.2/lib/action_controller/ base.rb:524:in `process_without_filters' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-2.0.2/lib/action_controller/ filters.rb:685:in `process_without_session_management_support' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-2.0.2/lib/action_controller/ session_management.rb:123:in `process' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-2.0.2/lib/action_controller/ base.rb:388:in `process' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-2.0.2/lib/action_controller/ dispatcher.rb:171:in `handle_request' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-2.0.2/lib/action_controller/ dispatcher.rb:115:in `dispatch' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-2.0.2/lib/action_controller/ dispatcher.rb:126:in `dispatch_cgi' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-2.0.2/lib/action_controller/ dispatcher.rb:9:in `dispatch' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-1.1.3/lib/mongrel/rails.rb:76:in `process' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-1.1.3/lib/mongrel/rails.rb:74:in `synchronize' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-1.1.3/lib/mongrel/rails.rb:74:in `process' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-1.1.3/lib/mongrel.rb:159:in `process_client' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-1.1.3/lib/mongrel.rb:158:in `each' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-1.1.3/lib/mongrel.rb:158:in `process_client' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-1.1.3/lib/mongrel.rb:285:in `run' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-1.1.3/lib/mongrel.rb:285:in `initialize' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-1.1.3/lib/mongrel.rb:285:in `new' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-1.1.3/lib/mongrel.rb:285:in `run' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-1.1.3/lib/mongrel.rb:268:in `initialize' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-1.1.3/lib/mongrel.rb:268:in `new' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-1.1.3/lib/mongrel.rb:268:in `run' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-1.1.3/lib/mongrel/configurator.rb: 282:in `run' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-1.1.3/lib/mongrel/configurator.rb: 281:in `each' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-1.1.3/lib/mongrel/configurator.rb: 281:in `run' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-1.1.3/bin/mongrel_rails:128:in `run' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-1.1.3/lib/mongrel/command.rb: 212:in `run' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-1.1.3/bin/mongrel_rails:281 /usr/bin/mongrel_rails:19:in `load' /usr/bin/mongrel_rails:19
The site's been working fine for weeks, but now it's down, just as I
was starting to build up users ... typical 
-S
