PG::ConnectionBad: FATAL: password authentication failed for user “alphauser”

Question

I\'m working on an application in Rails for my college. The application was started by the students from previous year and now it\'s me and my colleagues turn to continue wo

Answer 1

You have to create corresponding user and database manually like this:

in shell: psql

then:

  create user alphauser with password 'alphapassword';
  create database alpha_database owner alphauser;
  alter user alphauser superuser createrole createdb replication;
  \q

don't forget semicolons.