PG::ConnectionBad: fe_sendauth: no password supplied

Question

When I attempt to run \"rake test\" on a local postgres database, it throws the above exception.

Here is my pg_hba.conf file: # Database administrative login by

Answer 1

If your hb_conf has already been modified to force passwords, then make sure your rails app's database configuration includes a password in both development and test environments.

default: &default
  adapter: postgresql
  encoding: unicode
  pool: 5
  host: localhost
  username: your_user
  password: your_password

development:
  <<: *default
  database: your_db_development

test:
  <<: *default
  database: your_db_test

production:
  url: <%= ENV['DATABASE_URL'] %>

I was getting this error when I failed to supply a password for the test database.