FATAL: role “root” does not exist

Question

I have started to learn using heroku and i was trying to execute bundle exec rake db:create db:migrate command, i have encountered the following errors,

Answer 1

The problem is that you don't have ROLE on your local machine named root. Run this in a terminal:

psql

Then if you connect with PostgreSQL in your terminal:

CREATE ROLE root WITH PASSWORD 'root' WITH CREATEDB LOGIN CREATEROLE CREATEUSER SUPERUSER;

or just change in your database.yml file user to user, who exists with valid password.

P.S.

Don't run in your terminal:

heroku run rake db:create

Heroku creates for you database when you first time push your application to Heroku's servers.

But you can run:

heroku run rake db:migrate