Database connection error on Rails application with postgresql database

July 4, 2015 5.1k views
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Voha
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Good day! Could You help me with issue after installing RoR image with postgresql - generate model and after it make migration: rake db:migrate RAILSENV=production. Get a mistake - "PG:ConnectionBad: fesendauth: no password supplied". What can I do? (export APPDATABASEPASSWORD=**** helps only if there is no restart).

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  • ashdarji1 January 31, 2016

    export APPDATABASEPASSWORD=<production_database_password>

    <production_database_password> can be found when you first ssh into your digital ocean account

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jcfausto November 5, 2015

Hello,

I was having the same error, and for me the environment variables wan't set. It was just a matter of executing ". /etc/default/unicorn" as seem here to properly setup the variables.

After that all started working again.

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SamiF July 4, 2015

Can you verify if the database works outside of the Rails environment?

What happens when you run these commands in console/terminal?

Run a login test:

psql -U postgres

Run a port test:

netstat -nlp | grep 5432

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  • Voha July 4, 2015

    psql -U postgres **
    ==> psql: FATAL: Peer authentication failed for user "postgres"
    **netstat -nlp | grep 5432
    ==> tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:5432 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN
    4917/postgres
    unix 2 [ ACC ] STREAM LISTENING 32295 4917/postgres
    var/run/postgresql/.s.PGSQL.5432
    P.S. Changed authentication to md5 in pghba.conf. Tried to log in from shell "psql -U rails" - everything is Ok, but migration still doesnt work with old issue "fesendauth...."

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