Postgres failed to create database for rails-composer

Question

I'm running the rails-composer script with

rails new myproject -m https://raw.github.com/RailsApps/rails-composer/master/compser.rb

And everything goes along smoothly until it asks me if I want to go ahead and drop the db in. I say yes. All drops fail, and all creations fail.

Everything else finished fine. And testing the site brings up a beautiful error site with lots of details on how the database password wasn't accepted. But of course it was never created...

How do I give the script permission to create the database without a password? I've tried preempting creating the username as the app name in postgres. I tried building the Rails project as the postgres user.

It should be a simple and straightforward solution since the rest is automated.

Answer 1

Did you specify something other than SQLite for the database?

From the README:

Choose “SQLite” for the easiest setup. If you choose PostgreSQL or MySQL, the databases must be installed and running before you run Rails Composer.

Rails composer does not install and setup your database server for you. It assumes there's a properly named database already present before you run this if you're using PostgreSQL or MySQL.