Cloud9 postgres

Question

I am trying to set up a postgres database in a Rails app in Cloud9.

I have followed the instructions here: https://docs.c9.io/setting_up_postgresql.html and set up

Answer 1

For me, doing the steps in Cloud9 workspace setup with Rails and Postgresql wasn't enough. It was passing in my user, but not the password. echo $USERNAME was coming up with nothing.

Solution

$ sudo su - postgres
$ createuser ubuntu -dslP

Then I did this:

sudo sudo -u postgres psql
postgres=# \password
Enter new password: entered a real password
Enter it again: entered it again
postgres=# \q

Then I did this in my yaml file (note I killed the host part):

development:
  adapter: postgresql
  encoding: unicode
  database: my_database_name
  pool: 5
  username: ubuntu
  password: actual_password

Then I was able to create my database with:

rake db:create

And my Rails server started without any more hiccups.