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Active Record error on deployed rails app

I have successfully deployed my rails backend but when trying to login from frontend, getting this error:

ActiveRecord::ConnectionNotEstablished (connection to server on socket “/var/run/postgresql/.s.PGSQL.5432” failed: No such file or directory [mmw] [2022-12-12 16:12:50] Is the server running locally and accepting connections on that socket?

Need help please


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Bobby Iliev
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December 12, 2022

Hi there,

Are you deploying this on a Droplet on the App Platform with a Managed Postgres cluster?

Note that you need to create the database that you’ve defined in your config file. You can do that by using the following command:

CREATE DATABASE dbname;

After you’ve created your database, you can run your ActiveRecord migrations as normal, bin/rails db:migrate.

Best,

Bobby

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