pgAdmin III An error has occurred: Error connecting to the server: to rails webrick server in development enviroment

Question

I'm building my first rails app with PostgreSQL, everthing has been going fine but now I need to get direct access to the database. I was hoping to use a GUI like pgAdmin III but I'm not sure how to connect it to my development database?

I've tried the following but I'm only guessing as I could find no guides

In my database.yml file I have

development:
  adapter: postgresql
  encoding: unicode
  database: myapp_development
  pool: 5
  username: ross
  password:

in pgAdmin III - New Server Registration - Properties

Name: myapp_development
Host: 127.0.0.1
port: 3000
SSL:
Maintenance DB: postgres
username: ross
password: 
Store password: false

Answer 1

Not sure what error you are seeing when trying to connect?. At a guess I'd say port 3000 seems unlikely.... postgres default port is 5432.